Best Great Coach Quotes

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

I’m still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I’ll settle for persistence

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing.

Nobody thought I would be a great coach.

Nobody thought I’d be a great coach. I’m the kind of guy you’d expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

When you’re playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don’t need him any more.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

It’s a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

I’ve been lucky enough to be around some great coaches, all the way from Pop Warner to now.

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I’m learning every day. When I show up, I’m happy.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you’ll get nowhere

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn’t know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.