Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Coaches - Page 18

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.

I used to go with my dad to wash windows at a grocery store on Sunday nights when it was closed because they didn't want anyone to be washing the windows when it was open.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

After you have won a game, you can maybe smile for a minute and then you have to think: 'How can I recover as quickly as possible.'

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

I love to compete - don't get me wrong.

In order to be the champion, you've got to play the best, you've got to beat the best.

Everyone wants to focus on what Ben Simmons can't do, which is shoot and try to rush him into being a range shooter. I think Simmons in Philadelphia has done a good job in focusing what he does great versus what he doesn't do as well.

Belief gives you the power to achieve the extraordinary

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

I try to forget the past.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

I am a professional, I believe in work ethics, I believe in contracts.

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.'

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

When we have adversity we oftentimes tend to look around and think that we're the Lone Ranger. We tend to believe that we're the only one who has problems. And we always look around and see others who are more talented, taller, smarter, handsomer, or faster. I can assure you, everyone has problems-even football coaches. The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Syracuse, New York, is like Hawaii for eight months of the year. The other four months, I don't care about the weather because we're playing basketball.

I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for everybody. He was great outside [the ring]; he was great inside. We got so accustomed to it we thought we deserved it.

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

Only one player is not important. The most important thing is the squad, and it's important to be together. You can't just lose it over one player.

I'm not a big social media guy, I have no Twitter accounts, I don't have Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, I don't do any of that stuff.

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

My own personal opinion is putting three finals in one day isn't supporting the women's game.

They wanted me as coach.

I'm still ghetto. That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture.

I'm very fortunate to work with a great group of guys that are great coaches, great motivators, excited about what they do, have a lot of enthusiasm and are excellent coaches.

Like a lot of people who get into coaching, I was impacted by the people in my life. Certainly my father (John) who coached me in youth league baseball, and my high school coach, Joe Moore, were mentors and major influences.

The great Chicago teams when Tex Winter and Phil Jackson were there - the triangle was just amazing. I know Michael Jordan was great, but everybody touched the ball, everybody cut, everybody moved. It was just so hard to guard.

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.

I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.

You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

Do NOT say you “can’t”! You can say, “I don’t want to”. You can say, “I’m not willing to put forth the effort”. But DO NOT say you CAN’T!

It's 2015, and I'm the first female coach in any of the major sports. That's ridiculous!

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

For me, to see the ball go in once or twice, it breeds confidence.

Runners don't run with their legs, they run ON their legs. In reality, they run with their Arms!

I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

I've been very blessed to be surrounded by some very special people.