Quotes About Encouragement

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

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.'

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

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

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

If you tell a fish you can't climb a tree, then it will think he/she is dumb forever

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Si tu aimes quelqu'un qui t'aime, ne démolis jamais ses rêves. Le plus grand, le plus absurde de ses rêves, c'est toi.

Maybe you're not the failure you think you are after all...

Find the good—and praise it.

pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so. - Precious Ramotswe

I am grateful to you for being who you are: for standing up for ladies with large glasses and a bad skin and for everybody else who has had to battle to get where they have got. And most of all I am grateful to you for being my friend, Mma; I am grateful to you for that. That is the best thing that anybody can be to anybody else--a friend.

She looked down. He had clasped his hands together, his fingers interlaced. It was a gesture, she thought, of unequivocal pleasure--pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and liked us sufficiently to say so.

She meant it, and as she spoke, she thought how strange it was that we so very rarely said complimentary things to our friends, and how easy it was to do so, and how it made the world seem a less harsh place.

a prison of put-downs and belittlements.