The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be. — Tom Landry
Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play. — Clair Bee
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon. — Al McGuire
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parasheghian
I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. — Nader al-Masri
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be — Tom Landry
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do. — Bum Phillips
My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach. — Kevin Durant
I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here. — Bill Belichick
Short Sports Coach Quotes
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching. — John Whitmore
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches. — Harvey Penick
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired. — Bum Phillips
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from. — Bobby Knight
Top 10 Sports Coach Quotes
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Sports Coach Motivational Quotes
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — Casey Stengel
My coach told me, "Larry, no matter how much you work at it, there's always someone out there who's working just a little harder - if you take 150 practice shots, he's taking 200." And that drove me. — Larry Bird
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours. — Herb Brooks
I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done. — Tom Osborne
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
I want you to be forever strong on the field, so that you will be forever strong off the field. — Larry Gelwix
Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation. — Mike Piazza
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day. — Willie Mays
Sports Coach Leadership Quotes
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
There is no such thing as life in-between. — Pat Riley
I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO. — Bill Fitch
No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches. — Robert Zuppke
One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed. — Chuck Knox
Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Football Coach Quotes
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty. — Fielding H. Yost
There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick
A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order. — Bud Grant
I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles
A good coach will make his players see what they can become rather than what they are.
You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else. — Bum Phillips
Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn. — Pat Dye
I'm the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I got a championship game to play, and I'm excited for the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day! — Les Miles
They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach. — Joe Paterno
Sports Training Quotes
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. — Ray Allen
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable. — Mas Oyama
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating. — Paula Radcliffe
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training. — Vladimir Kramnik
Train hard and stay focused: there are no shortcuts to success in fighting or any other sport. — Joe Rogan
Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer — Laurent Fignon
Coaching Quotes
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team. — Tom Landry
To be an overachiever you have to be an over believer. — Dabo Swinney
Sport doesn't build character, it reveals it.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. — Carl Jung
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself. — Phil Jackson
Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes. — Kerri Walsh
Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. — Joe Maddon
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. — Pete Carroll
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Baseball Coach Quotes
I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. — Tim Mccarver
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. — Casey Stengel
What's tough is being good every day. — Willie Mays
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. — Leo Durocher
I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function. — Torii Hunter
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave — Durwood Merrill
Coaches Quotes
You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose. — Carli Lloyd
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. — Bo Schembechler
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there. — Mark Rippetoe
Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise — Michael Jordan
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. — Timothy Gallwey
I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day. — Les Miles
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people. — Tom Osborne
I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach — Jon Gruden
Soccer Coach Quotes
I love the game of basketball, and as long as I can do that, keep playing and try to get some more championships with the organization, I’ll be happy. — Kawhi Leonard
I’m in the team to score goals. I try and score as many as I can in the season to help the team out. — Harry Kane
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
I’ve always been working hard on my speed for the last few years. Obviously I’m not slow, but as a striker, the more speed you have, the better you are. — Harry Kane
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls’ lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible. — Ellyse Perry
I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them. — Mikel Arteta
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. — Rinus Michels
Every day is important, every act is important. The secret is that the people, players and staff have to believe what you are trying to deliver. — Mikel Arteta
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
Good Coach Quotes
To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie
I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him. — Woody Hayes
I was in the right place at the right time. — Mel Allen
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian
If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don’t need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad – because I know it. — Paul Pogba
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside. — Bobby Knight
To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It’s not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff. — Mikel Arteta
Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. — Percy Cerutty
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page. — Bill Walton
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. — Satchel Paige
The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled — Ric Charlesworth
I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it. — Todd English
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team. — Frosty Westering
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. — Fred Shero
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer
The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool. — Dennis Hastert
Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball. — Marv Dunphy
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
For me it was always about enjoying what I was doing and trying to get better, playing more and more sport. — Ellyse Perry
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