Browsing Topic 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.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I was doing all the coaching schools so that I’d be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn’t a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

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

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

In 2001 we didn’t have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don’t win a championship, but are still great coaches.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.

Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

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

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confidence comes from being prepared.

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.