Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Coaches - Page 20

We are aware of the responsibility to win, but we have to take responsibility with joy.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

One of the very best things about being a coach or student-athlete at UCLA is if you need medical attention, you won't find any better place in the country than at the incomparable UCLA Medical Center.

I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

And I love doing my radio show and I love some of the other interests that I have. But I really feel like the biggest contribution I can make is in the lives of the men in this Valor football program.

My father, he's meant so much to me. He's always on me to be thankful and humble to everyone who's helped me and helped the team be successful. There were many things that he said and preached throughout my life that are now part of my mindset. It's a big part of who I am.

This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters.

To take a team to win a championship, there's so many things that have to happen.

We're not Seattle East. We're our own Atlanta, and there are definitely things I learned from Coach Carroll. He had probably the single biggest influence on my coaching career.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

This is a game, you're supposed to enjoy it, and I'm afraid a lot of the years I had, I was fighting that.

Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

We are not trying to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes you have your off days. We have a way of going about things. Basically we are positive people trying to improve players and teams.

Some of the best times are training camp and getting your ideas in how you'd like them.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

It is our desire to win the World Cup again but it is going to be difficult and we mustn't forget that in the history of football, Argentina has only won the World Cup twice. That shows how difficult it will be to win it.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food.

I've lived a blessed life.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

I've spent my entire life around coaches.

When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.

I consider myself a survivor.

You know how you toilet paper and egg somebody's house? I did it, right? But I did it back-to-back nights, Saturday and Sunday. They called the police. Good thing nobody got arrested but that was something embarrassing and stupid. Why would you do the same house twice? It was ridiculous.

You don't win without talent, but your talent has to have purpose.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

You never say never to nothing.

The World Cup 2015 will be a stage for youngsters to make names for themselves and earn the respect and recognition of the cricket pundits. However, this can only be achieved if they don't get overawed by the situation, stay focused, stick to basics, respect the opponents, and follow match plans that will vary from match to match.

Memphis don't bluff. It's a tight knit community.

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

You've just got to go with your gut feeling.

I was getting a degree in accounting, and I was going to go off and account. And as it worked out, I haven't accounted for anything since.

Nutrition and sleep are two of the most underrated things, especially with younger kids.

Communicate with the front office, communicate with the staff, communicate with the secretaries, everybody. And make everybody feel a part of something. That's important.

People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.

When you play in the Champions League, you are switched on - very, very smart and focused on every situation.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Communication helps you build up trust and respect... It gets everyone on the same page.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

I realized that I still had a lot to offer the game. My knowledge could maybe help younger guys. I enjoyed being around the clubhouse, on the field.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

I have to say that I have developed a real passion for Pakistan cricket.

Everybody is going to have a bad game. One game does not decide somebody's season.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

You can't just say, 'This team's going to win,' or 'This team's going to lose.' Anything can happen. So what you can control is winning your game as much as possible. If you don't do that, and then the other team has a chance to lose, and they lose, and you didn't go about it the right way, now you just let that slip.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.

Some sports give a lot of emotions because you know the people well, not personally but they express their passion and their emotion on the field so you have an attraction. In tennis, because of this code of conduct that is extremely strict, players do not show their personality.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.