Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Coaches - Page 14

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

It's an honor to play in a Thanksgiving Day game and bring excitement to the entire country.

The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.

I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

Coaches win practices, players win games

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

I love all the other bowls, but being a Big Ten guy from Ohio and watching the Rose Bowl in the '70s with Archie Griffin, it's everything everybody says it was.

Does the manager have absolute power in England? No, it depends on a budget and on the executive director that negotiates the signings of players.

It's been one heck of a ride. I came into the league playing with Kobe and Shaq and for Phil Jackson. Playing with Jordan. And so, it just has been a blessing. I can't describe it any other way.

Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.

All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.

I think people believe that Bengaluru as a city will be more aware because of its cosmopolitan nature. However, I don't think that is necessarily true. Not many people today are even aware that they may have diabetes.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Everything goes in cycles. There isn't anything that lasts indefinitely.

Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?

Mike Brown wanted to hire me to work with LeBron in player development.

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

When I left Dortmund, I said it's not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you're doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.

NASA is moving the space program to Starkville because it has no atmosphere.

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

Orlando is my history.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

But who, in the Western world, has not been deranged by a toxic cocktail of dissatisfaction, restlessness, desire and resentment? Who has not yearned to be younger, richer, more talented, more respected, more celebrated, and, above all, more sexually attractive? Who has not felt entitled to more and aggrieved when more was not forthcoming? It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated.

The NCAA is one of the worst organizations - maybe the worst organization - in sports. They certainly don't care about the athlete.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

You will always miss chances, but you can't do anything about them once they've gone. It's always about the next chance.

Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I'm especially thankful for being able to coach so many talented young men over my 18 years here. It has been so rewarding to see these players come to OU and mature over a four- or five-year career, and not just on the field. To play a small part in their growth is what I will always cherish the most.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

When you become a first timer in a thing, there's no way you can know everything.

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

The national championship for Syracuse in 2003 will always be the high-water mark for me. That was my alma mater, my team, my players, our fans. That remains the top experience of my basketball life.

We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other