"Coaches who can outline plays on a..." - Quote by Vince Lombardi
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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“Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.”
“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.”
“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.”
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“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.”
“They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.”
“First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop”
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“People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”
“To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years.”
“Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!”