Coaching Quotes

Coaching Quote of the day

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

I'm not thinking about coaching, I'm thinking about heading to Washington, watching the world champions and my brother coach

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Put the Team Before Yourself.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

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.

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and... seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win.

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only change.

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.