Coaching Quotes

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

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

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

Our emphasis is on execution, not winning.

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.

I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

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

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

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

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Practice to beat the best.

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

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

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

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.

Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!

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.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

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.

A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.

Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.