Best 565 quotes in «coaching quotes» category

I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

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.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

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

It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

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

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.

I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Make every day your masterpiece.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Like everything else I teach in my coaching, staying in shape for me is about the little actions and changes in lifestyle that have a huge effect over time.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.

Make friendship a fine art.

Morally, the life of the organization must be of exemplary nature. This is one phase where the organization must not have criticism.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

No question about it: potential is wrapped in great mystery. Like rainbows, which are really circles-we see only the upper halves, the horizon hides the rest-potential never reveals its entirety.

No rebounds, no rings.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

On coaching the 1970s Philadelphia Flyers: Nobody likes us. Nobody outside Philadelphia, that is. In fact, the nicest thing people say about us is that we are a bunch of muggers.

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.