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Quotes About Coaching

Volleyball is not like a formula so we must give players some freedom.
~ Karch Kiraly
For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.
~ Robert Griffin III
We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.
~ Larry Hawkins
Please recall that she rescued you from torture not so many years ago, and do try to be nice" Lobo I remembered, but the last thing I wanted was social coaching from a killing machine. Jon
~ Mark L. Van Name
Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.
~ Marv Albert
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.
~ Unknown
In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
~ Philippe Starck
A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.
~ Andy Stanley
The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.
~ Gifford Pinchot
I'm delighted to be back in coaching. Our goal is to put Iowa wrestling back on top, and I want to do everything I can to make it happen.
~ Dan Gable
To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life.
~ Unknown
You can get good at something just by working hard at it. If you've got some talent and you work hard at it, you can get really, really good at it. But excellence, peak performance, being the best you can be at something—that doesn't happen without coaching.
~ Matthew Kelly
Guide – don't judge – when coaching
~ Unknown
Special teams, field position, and situational football are all Belichick staples
~ Unknown
all you barely see are sparks from those pennies they won't let go of. You must invest in yourself, in education, training, coaching, mentoring, health, and systems and tools, allowing you to Work Smarter, Not Harder. Most the super-extremist hardcore tightwads who I know seem to never be satisfied or happy. They just want more for free. If
~ Unknown
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
~ Nadia Comaneci
One of my favorite things to tell people when I'm coaching them, is every great executive I've ever known has almost unlimited free time. The most incredible thing someone can learn is how to build that time. If a meeting can be done in five minutes there is no reason to take 15 minutes. I have learned through experience how to prioritize tasks and analyze what needs to be addressed first.
~ Unknown
guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to "coaching women." I remember leveling him with a death ray stare and then relaxing and curling up the corner of my mouth and saying, "Don't worry about coaching 'women.' Just go home and coach 'basketball.' 
~ Pat Summitt
I'd bring our big players out to the perimeter and make them run the play like a guard, so they saw the play from that angle as well as their own. When one of our bigs got upset if a guard didn't make a play, I'd say, "Fine. You go play point.
~ Pat Summitt
the next thing you know you discover you've been drafted into some kind of DARPA-funded think tank, or wake up with a hangover in a North Korean labour camp, doomed to spend the next two years coaching the Great Leader's son through writing the Nobel Prize–winning SF novel that daddy expects him to produce.
~ Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
~ Pete Rose