Coaching Quotes
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I won't miss coaching. What you miss is that camaraderie with those boys and the other coaches. You miss that.
Bobby Bowden -
You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.
Joe Sakic
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With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Gary Neville -
I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
Abby Wambach -
Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.
Bill Parcells -
Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
Bobby Bowden -
Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
Bob McNair -
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
Bobby Knight
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
Daniel Cormier -
When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.
Hank Stram -
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
Curt Flood -
I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.
Jalen Brunson -
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Billie Jean King -
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
Phil Jackson -
I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.
Jimmy Johnson -
A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.
Lauren Gibbs -
When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'
Bobby Knight -
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.
Curt Flood
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Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
Brendon Burchard -
I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.
Jean-Philippe Courtois -
Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
Bobby Bowden -
If you have time to be with a dog, and the dog is smart, you come to understand the dog, and the dog understands you. They're not hard to train. But they have to be smart, and you have to spend time with them. It's like coaching. I was a better coach when I had smart players.
Bud Grant