Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Coaches - Page 5

Failure will hurt but not hinder us.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

You don't need a gym to develop real strength. Just get an empty keg of beer and fill it with sand or water and simply pick it up, carry it in your back yard, flip it, anything just to get moving for as little as 15 minutes.

No one player is bigger than the team.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

I love that Mel Gibson.

Sometimes sports can provide a medicine that no doctor can provide.

World Cup 2003 was the worst phase in my career, but that is now behind me, and I am doing all-out efforts to get my place in the team back and further my career.

Diabetes is a silent killer and awareness about the same is certainly lacking, hence I felt there was a need for me to get involved and assist in creating the required awareness.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

When God gives you a second chance, it's not something you take for granted.

I'm a big boy; I can handle criticism.

Health and fitness are totally a choice for a better quality of life.

I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.

The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again.

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

I knew your father before you did, and I don't think he'd be too proud of what you're doing right now.

There's not one moment from my journey that I'd want to change. Everything happens for a reason.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

I don't care how much weight's on there. If you're doing 40 reps, that's cardio!

I like it when the team is training very well, when they are trying to improve, and I like it also when they have fun.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

It's my favorite thing to do, grilling.

You can't play with fear in football. There is a lot of respect - you have respect for everybody, the ones on top and the bottom - but never fear.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

From my point of view, it is not the coach who becomes world champion, it is a team. Not just the players who played, but the whole squad, and also the team behind the team. Because if you want to achieve success, the whole team has to work perfectly, like a machine, and all the pieces of the puzzle need to fit together into one picture.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he's a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn't that I couldn't play every day.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.

Keep things in perspective. It's never quite as good as it seems, it's never quite as bad as it seems.

I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?

I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.

I am more off-the-cuff and wear my emotions on my sleeve more than I should.

Even at the age of 33 I was one of the most flexible at Arsenal when it came to my back muscles.

People think that South Africa and Australia are culturally similar but, having worked in both environments, I found that theory to be untrue.

I think as an older player, there's a kind of natural responsibility or natural role to go around the lads and say a few things. I had it when I came into the team; when you look to the older boys in certain situations to see what they say, see how they act, and see what they expect.

When you care about the players you are working with, that's when they want to play hard for you.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

I am the luckiest man in the world.

I'm trying to decide whether to be happy or sad. We have to be better than this or we will struggle.

I've come across people who look smart in a suit who haven't really got a lot underneath. Football is an unforgiving business and you're easily found out if you're a bit of a fraud.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

Performance comes only when there is confidence. And for a player, his confidence increases if he knows his team-mates are confident of him, the media is confident of him, the fans back him.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.