Coaching Quotes

The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Coaching is about helping young people have a chanceto succeed. There is no more awesome responsibilitythan that. One of the greatest honors a person can haveis being called 'Coach.'

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

What I really like is changing a life, helping someone change a business, change a family. In the beginning, it was because I was willing to only be paid for a result. I wasn't a therapist; there were no such thing as coaches back then. You had to be a therapist and it had to be paid for by somebody, and I saw what therapists did and I was honestly disturbed by it, because I see people in therapy for five years and I was, like, "This is absurd."

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

That's the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.

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

You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.

They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.

There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

I don't think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.