Coaching Quotes
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The pretty girls get all the good stuff. Oh, God. So not true. I unlearned this after years of coaching beautiful clients. Yes, these lovelies get preferential treatment in most life scenarios, but there's a catch: While everyone's looking at them, virtually no one sees them.
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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.
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Coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter' in my weight class, I couldn't do it. I'd basically be coaching people to beat me. I'm going to give you my riddle?
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I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
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In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.
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It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
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All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.
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You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.
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The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.
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Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies.
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I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.
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The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.
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There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and there are no problems.' If your self worth is based on what other people think of you, you're in trouble. My self worth is not based on them. My self worth is based on my faith, how I treat others, what I'm doing right for this program and these kids and this coaching staff. Other than that, I understand you're not going to please everybody.
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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.
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Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.
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Where I'm from, we don't do the kiss-on-the-cheek thing. Sometimes we can feel a bit awkward in England. Someone needs to let me know what the rules are because I don't want to be rude. I need a little more etiquette coaching.
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The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
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Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.
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In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
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In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
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Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.
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It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
