Quotes of: Coaching Keyword

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

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Alonzo Mourning

Football is such a team sport, so no one individual does it. No one coach or no one assistant coach or no one player, it's a great team sport, so I don't get carried away with a bunch of accolades.

Jimmy Johnson

Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.

Matt Hasselbeck

I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

Gordon Taylor

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Dusty Baker

Herb Brooks: I'll be your coach, I won't be your friend. If you need one of those, take it up with Doc or Coach Patrick.

Miracle

The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

Woody Hayes

Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb t...

Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership

Blue Stanton: Coach we need a water break, we been out here all day! Coach Boone: What did you say? Blue Stanton: Said, we need a water break. Coach Boone: A water break? Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that...

Remember the Titans

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to ...

John Madden

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

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

You are more in control of your destiny than you have ever imagined.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

It is never too late to show true character.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

The most powerful weapon in the world is, Question.

Summit Your Everest: Your Coach for Obstacle & Failure Management

In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach.

Tim Howard

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

Steve Spurrier

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Tom Lehman

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

Rick Barry