Quotes About Coaching

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any other coach when he retired, Eddie Robinson's impact on coaching and the game of football went far beyond wins and losses. He brought a small school in northern Louisiana from obscurity to nationwide, if not worldwide, acclaim and touched the lives of hundreds and hundreds of young men in his 57 years at Grambling. That will be his greatest legacy.

Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.

We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

You're either coaching it or allowing it to happen.

Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.

You look at the assistant coaches under [Pat Riley] that played and they have become prosperous within this game. It triples all the way down from the assistant players to the coaches. Patrick Ewing went into coaching as well as myself.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

I was working as hard as a human being could work. That tempo hasn't changed. I just have more diversity and more companies, and now I've got 33 companies so my dance card is full. Four kids and three grandkids, but I love that passionate lifestyle. I love constantly growing, I love seeing and feeling that you can have an impact. And gradually it went from just coaching to actually running businesses because I've had experiences that were life changing.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance.

It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

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The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.