Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Timothy Gallwey

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

W. Timothy Gallwey is an author who has written a series of books in which he has set forth a methodology for coaching and for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields that he calls "the Inner Game". Since he began writing in the 1970s, his books include The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner Game of Music, Inner Skiing and The Inner Game of Work. Gallwey's seminal work is The Inner Game of Tennis, with more than one million copies in print. Besides sports, his training methods have been applied to the fields of business, health, and education.

Author | Born: 1938

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Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.

Timothy Gallwey

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Timothy Gallwey

The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

Timothy Gallwey

Concentration is not staring hard at something. It is not trying to concentrate.

Timothy Gallwey

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.

Timothy Gallwey

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Timothy Gallwey

Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.

Timothy Gallwey

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Timothy Gallwey

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