Sports Coach Quotes

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

She's a fighter, and she does the long program well, so we'll see how it turns out. And in figure skating, it's never over until the fat lady sings.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

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

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

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

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

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

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.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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 principle is competing against yourself.

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

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

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.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

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.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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.

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.