Quotes About Coaching

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

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

The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

A successful coach is one who is still coaching.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.

One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

The pessimistic coach complains about the play. The optimistic coach expects it to change. The realistic coach adjusts what he can control.

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.