Great Coaching Quotes

I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

If I hadn't had mentors, I wouldn't be here today. I'm a product of great mentoring, great coaching... Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone-your husband, other family members, or your boss.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

What's tough is being good every day.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

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

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

If you think you can't, you're right.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.