Quotes About Coaching

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

The meaning of volleyball, is to give meaning to volleyball, as the meaning of coaching is to give meaning to coaching.

I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.

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

I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

5 words of advice to reduce stress - "Connect with your Soul's power" or "Change your reality through Coaching".

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

The executive coach and teacher John Schuster

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

Coaching has been my entire life.

Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it's life in the NFL.

We see Humble Inquiry as primarily about reducing one's ignorance, making sense of complicated situations, and in that process, deepening relationships. In contrast, the primary role of helping inquiry is to influence—to teach, coach, counsel, and heal.

Increased coaching and exposure to group process skills training will go a long way toward developing this skill. Leaders also must begin to see themselves as organizational architects instead of rock star, charismatic, visionary types. They must see themselves as builders of their organization

I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.