Coaching Quotes
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You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.
Bob Cousy -
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
Brendon Burchard
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The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden -
Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
Kevin Garnett -
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
Bernard Ebbers -
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette -
The most difficult problem about coaching at Notre Dame is losing early.
Ara Parseghian -
We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.
Joe Gibbs
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Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
Elgin Baylor -
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.
Bill Parcells -
When I first starting coaching, I used a megaphone.
Antonio Conte -
I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
Christopher Atkins -
He did a great job of telling them, 'Hey, this program is not where we want it to be. But we're not making a change. And we're going into next year with this coaching staff.' It was fortunate, just for our peace of mind, that Joel was with us on the trip.
Dan Monson -
What he did there was very smart. He deflected attention from the players, and he let them play, and I think that was coaching as much as anything.
Andy Moog
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You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
Don Shula -
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say 'two plus two is four' to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
Joe Paterno -
Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
Peter Facinelli -
It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.
John Madden -
In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching - over 70,000 respondents - we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. It didn't matter who the coach was or what method they used. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.
Marshall Goldsmith -
You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.
Brad Gilbert
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Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.
Phil Jackson -
Jamie has proven he was the right person for our head coaching position three years ago and continues to be the right person today.
Jeff Long -
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
Bill McCartney -
Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
Marv Levy