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Quotes About Coaching

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.
~ David Moyes
Guardiola is one of the best managers in the world.
~ Ederson
Of course managers win ball games.
~ Walter Alston
Top managers, like Pochettino, Klopp and Guardiola don't make excuses.
~ John Barnes
I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.
~ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.
~ Javier Zanetti
I watch a lot of Liverpool and Manchester City.
~ Julian Nagelsmann
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~ Donald Miller
If you are bound by a habit or an addiction that is unworthy, you must stop conduct that is harmful. Angels will coach you, and priesthood leaders will guide you through those difficult times."13
~ Unknown
A boss might give instructions and bark orders, a consultant would analyze data and give advice, but a coach would use curiosity to ask, listen and draw out the best from people.
~ Jack Canfield
A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. —Jack Canfield and Peter Chee
~ Jack Canfield
It's no stretch to say, then, that Thucydides coaches all who read him. For as his greatest modern interpreter (himself a sometime coach) has gently reminded us, the Greeks, despite their antiquity, "may have believed things we have either forgotten or never known; and we must keep open the possibility that in some respects, at least, they were wiser than we.
~ John Lewis Gaddis
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
~ Jurgen Klinsmann
I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.
~ Lorrie Fair
I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.
~ John Madden
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
~ Rick Pitino
People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
~ Tony Dungy
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
~ John Wooden
when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.
~ John Wooden
While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor, and to be mentored! Constantly. Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day—to teach and be taught.
~ John Wooden
I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.
~ John Wooden
I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.
~ Tony Dungy
In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.
~ Unknown
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley