Quotes About Coaching

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe - an old, rank, delicious pipe - ham and eggs and scenery, a down grade, a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and and a contented heart - these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.

Love is the ultimate coach. Do what you love, let love guide you, and let love inspire you.

If there is one thing I've learned in all my years of coaching it's that you need to know your competition, and once you know them you can exploit their weakness. Negativity has a weakness. Let's find a way to exploit and conquer it, and we'll be well on our way to a successful turnaround.

Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.

Winning is the by-product of great effort, leadership, coaching, teamwork, and positive energy.

As the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi used to say, you have to know your fundamentals to play a good game.

good summary: to hire people who are a good fit for your vision, your organization, and the job itself; to listen to them, challenge your limiting assumptions about them, and deal with them as individuals; to create clear agreements with them, provide balanced behavioral feedback, and delegate appropriately and well; to coach them to develop in areas where they have potential and interest.

It took a lot of years of me on my own, coaching myself, to look in the mirror and love the reflection.

If we have poor coaches, that's a reflection of me and a reflection of what we think we can give to the kids.

When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?

Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.

I believe leaving school early was the right decision to make, but at first, I wasn't sure. But my coaches told me to follow my heart and there wouldn't be any regrets, and that's exactly what I did.

One of my greatest regrets in coaching is the Butler Final Four runs, because if I would have been a seasoned coach, I think we would have won.

With the 24-second clock, they throw up the shot so fast you don't see plays worked very often. With the extra six seconds, you can regroup after a missed shot and work another play. It would put more coaching in the game.

I'm letting my coaches take the reins more. Letting them make the decisions on what's going to be a hard practice, what's not going to be a hard practice and also this weight cutting thing. It's the best decision I've made in my entire career.

It was funny, a lot of people who rejected me as a player, later said, 'Oh, we did it to help you.' I met a coach years later who said, 'I didn't take you at that time for your own good!'

T-Lue is as bright as they come. He's incredible at making adjustments, holding guys accountable, relating.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

Success in football is relative. If you take a job at a school that finished with a 1-9 record the year before, you're considered a good coach if you finish 5-5 in your first season. But what happens if you start with 8-2 or 9-1?

I've actually seen guys who I considered relatively stupid college coaches, then go to the NFL, and sanctimoniously think they understand that something the rest of us couldn't perceive. They're an idiot before, they're an idiot now, and they'll be an idiot afterwords. It's mind-numbing.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.

You don't go into coaching if you're not willing to step into that moment and go, 'OK, this is what it's going to take, and this is why you do it.' Everything hinges on winning and losing, right?

Not to oversimplify what football coaches do, but their success or failure hinges on concepts that aren't foreign to any coach.