Coach Quotes

Coach Quote of the day

I'm a football coach. I'm not a doctor ... They don't call plays, I don't do surgeries. We have a great deal here.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.

They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

Nothing profound ever happens in your life when you remain in your comfort zone.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Internal character: how you behave when no one is watching.

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

No, but you can see it from here.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

Nobody thought I would be a great coach.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Nobody thought I'd be a great coach. I'm the kind of guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.