Coaching Quotes

Practice structure determines success.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

Coaching soccer, like disciplines including journalism, you'll always learn if you're open to it, you'll learn from your players. If that's being smart, fair enough.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

All really successful coaches have a system.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

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.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

Coaching takes patience.

I'm a coach's coaching player. I like to be on the floor. So, if the coach tells me what to do out on the floor, I can get it done. I'm really comfortable being directed.

Trouble can always be borne when it is shared.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

You must have a passion to coach.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching.