650 Best Quotes About Coaching And Leadership (2023)
1. “Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.” - Bill Hybels
2. “In research conducted over the past three years we’ve found that leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results.”
3. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” – Pat Riley
4. Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not. - Author: John Wooden
5. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski
6. “Amber is a huge asset as far as leadership and talking. She’s got the most positive attitude of any of the kids I’ve coached.”
7. “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” - Carl Sagan
8. “The worst thing a coach can do is to develop a philosophy and spend their entire career defending that philosophy.”
9. ¨Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.¨ —Vince Lombardi, football coach
10. “Leaders are made; they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” – Vince Lombardi
11. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
12. “You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.” – Bob Nelson Tweet: You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson
13. A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. – Ara Parasheghian
14. “At the heart of good communication, is not the process of talking, but that of listening. The first step to improve your listening skills is to stop talking. It is very difficult to talk and listen at the same time.”
15. “To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.” ― Stephen Curry
16. “On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams’ players hold players accountable.” — Joe Dumars
17. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. – John Maxwell
18. “People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.” – John Wooden Tweet: People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you. - John Wooden
19. “It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
20. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn
21. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” - Dwight Eisenhower
22. “Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.”
23. “A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.” - Plato
24. “It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.” – Simon Sinek
25. “You are no better than anyone else and no one is better than you.”
26. “I have no desire to coach basketball.” – Kevin Johnson
27. “When you encourage others, you in the process are being encouraged because you’re making a commitment to that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference.” – Zig Ziglar
28. The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan. — Whitey Ford.
29. “On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable” ~ Joe Dumars
30. “The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.”
31. "I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not." - Lucille Ball
32. “Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions.”
33. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. – Bill Gates
34. “For there to be a deep connection, you have to spend time with your players. They have to feel your commitment to them, experience your concern on a daily basis. That’s when we initiated the social outings and barbeques. We instructed our unit coaches to start every meeting by talking for five or ten minutes about things other than football. We encouraged them to ask their players about their lives away from football, and learn about their families and girlfriends and schoolwork.”
35. “Followers accept answers. Leaders ask questions.” - Sharon Pearson
36. “Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes”
37. “You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”
38. “The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.”
39. “Let me tell you what winning means…. you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.” ― Vince Lombardi
40. “Coaching is a unique process of human development, one that works to change a person’s life for the better and help him or her achieve a number of specific objectives.” Ian Berry
41. “Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”
42. “It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.” - Franklin Roosevelt
43. “During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions.”
44. “Coaching…which can help managers talk with their subordinates about their developmental needs….absolutely affects the relationship.” Time Magazine
45. “All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.” – Bill McCartney Tweet:
46. “When you’re a coach or athlete and you win a championship, you realize that the championship was really a work-in-progress. What you went through during the pre-season, in the regular-season and then during the post-season enabled you to win a title. I treated the stages of my cancer treatment as the phases of a championship season, and it kept me on track to accomplishing my ultimate goal.” – Joe Marelle
47. “Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.” ― Tom Landry
48. “Either you worked harder than your opponents or you got outworked. The challenge is to build a culture — a competitive environment — where everyone gives relentless effort every day. A culture everyone wants but few get.”
49. “The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it.” – Tony Dungy Tweet: The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. – Tony Dungy
50. “Being average means you are as close to the bottom as you are to the top.”
51. “Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.” – Pat Conroy
52. Following in your footsteps, I have learned and grown so much in life. You always inspire me, and I hope your birthday is everything you want it to be. Happy birthday to my life coach!
53. Book a complimentary 1-on-1 coaching "Unboxing Session"
54. “Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.” - John Kotter
55. “If what you did yesterday still looks big today, you haven’t done much today.”
56. “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” - Thomas Sowell
57. “Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team.”
58. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. – Tony Robbins
59. “The best leadership advice I have ever received? Listen more than you talk.” – Howard Schultz
60. "You don’t demand respect. You earn it."
61. “It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” – Les Brown
62. “Coaching is designed to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.” – James Belasco
63. “Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of people and getting them to believe in you.” – Eddie Robinson
64. “You need to train yourself to be comfortable with silence, particularly when dealing with cultures that respect silence more than we do in the West.”
65. The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant. – Jim Rohn
66. "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody." - Herbert B. Swope
67. “It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward.”
68. “Character is simply habit long continued.” - Plato
69. Sober companion - Sober companion, sober coach, or recovery coach are titles all representing the same job in the field of addiction, providing one-on-one assistance to
70. Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.
71. “Fear regret more than failure.” - Taryn Rose
72. “The only thing you have total control over is who you choose to be. Be the best you can be.” - Domonique Bertolucci
73. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
74. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Eddison
75. “Life’s short. Live passionately.” – Marc A. Pitman
76. “What’s going to make the biggest difference in the game is not the jawing and the yapping. It’s what we do between the whistles and if we do that we’re going to put ourselves in position to win the game.” – Mullen
77. “Excellence happens when you try, each day, to both do and be a little better than you were yesterday.” – Pat Riley Tweet: Excellence happens when you try, each day, to both do and be a little better than you were yesterday. - Pat Riley
78. “It’s about reinforcing that this is a special place that has produced special players.”
79. “There are no failures – just your experiences and your reactions to them.” - Tom Krouse
80. “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
81. “I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try.”
82. “In one study, executive coaching at Booz Allen Hamilton returned $7.90 for every $1 the firm spent on coaching.”
83. “Justin Fields’ ability to extend plays. That’s the number one difference between Ohio State this year and what they were a year ago.” – Joel Klatt
84. “We could all use more coaching.” ― Richard Thaler
85. “Just keep swimming.” - Dory
86. “Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear – good coaches do not.”
87. Abe Lemons, American coach: “You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'”
88. “Have fun. Enjoy the journey. And that’s one thing I didn’t do always. I going to make sure I enjoy this journey.” – Mack Brown
89. “This isn’t theory. It’s testimony. This is who played here. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of this great tradition?”
90. “Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future … I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches … facilitate learning.” – Warren Bennis
91. "If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
92. “Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions” – Dr. Jack Ramsay
93. “Leaders see the opportunities beyond what's done to what's possible.” - Sharon Pearson
94. “Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners.” Chicago Tribune
95. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. — Pat Riley, President of the Miami Heat and former Lakers coac
96. “To reach that end goal you and I must be willing to be straightforward with one another. We must be willing and prepared to stare at ourselves in the mirror and speak the truth.” —Mark Devro, self-help coach, in Forever in Bloom
97. "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." - Bernard Baruch
98. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” – John Wooden Tweet: A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. - John Wooden
99. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams’ players hold players accountable.
100. “That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives. You get to make a difference.” - Morgan Wootten
101. “Performance cannot be declared.”
102. “Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.” ― Danny Meyer
103. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
104. There are three rules for being a good leader: 1. Don't say you are one; 2. Show that you are one; and 3. Lead by example. - Georg W. F. Hegel
105. “A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on “x’s and o’s” as compared to time spent learning about people.”
106. “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
107. “If you want to win in the future, you must win the grind today. And then tomorrow and the next day and the next.”
108. “Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.” ― Bear Bryant
109. “It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.” – Jocko Willink
110. “While I made my living as a coach, I have lived my life to be a mentor, and to be mentored! Constantly. Everything in the world has been passed down. Every piece of knowledge is something that has been shared by someone else. If you understand it as I do, mentoring becomes your true legacy. It is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. It is why you get up every day—to teach and be taught.”
111. “I don’t look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.”
112. “Sometimes you have to take a break from being the kind of boss that’s always trying to teach people things. Sometimes you just have to be the boss of dancing.” - Michael Scott
113. “It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”
114. “The goal of coaching is good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.” Harvard Business Review
115. "If your teacher, coach, or mentor believes you can do something, you’re more likely to do it."— Gwen Moran, FastCompany
116. “People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.” - Ken Blanchard
117. ¨ Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team. ¨ – John Wooden
118. “I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.” ― Graham Roberts
119. “Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future … I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches … facilitate learning.” - Warren Bennis
120. “Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I’m sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile’s engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.” – Edward Herrmann
121. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
122. “Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to change into who you are. It’s going to be okay. ” —Lee Goff, marketing agency coach
123. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford
124. “Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.” ― Rick Pitino
125. Our basketball coach loves dogs. He has three-pointers.
126. “You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” - Colin Wright
127. “Coaches and the people they coach know that for the future to be different, we need to change the way we do things in the present…. More often, changes involve shifts in attitudes, thinking, perceptions, and behavior.” Gary Collins
128. Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once. – Drew Houston
129. “I always stressed that I didn’t have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.” ― Jurgen Klinsmann
130. “You recover better when you tell your family, a friend, or a support group what you are feeling. If you’d like them just to listen and not problem solve while you talk, let them know. If you want some suggestions and coaching on what to do, let them know that.” Al Siebert
131. “Personal coaches are a hot commodity among executives these days. Never mind the mansion, the Mercedes, the membership in the exclusive country club. In corporate America today, the sign that you have truly arrived – or at least that you are being groomed for arrival – is an executive coach. Your own personal coach, that is. Even if the coach’s assignment is to render you less obnoxious, his or her presence at your elbow signals that you are regarded by the company as entirely too valuable to fire or shoot.”
132. “I built success in business when I stopped focusing on me and started focusing on helping others.” - Sharon Pearson
133. “One of the most exciting things about coaching is the buzz you get when you push out of your comfort zone, come up with a plan and put it into action! Life takes on a whole new meaning as you re-create your life the way you want it.” - Emma-Louise Elsey
134. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. – John Maxwell
135. “There is no better life coach then LIFE, you attend class everyday, all you have to do is listen to the message” - Carl Henegan
136. “Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is more often helping them to learn rather than teaching them." - John Whitmore
137. “I didn’t get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.” ― Dabo Swinney
138. "If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade." - Tom Peters
139. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”
140. “Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Involve me, and I’ll learn.” – Marla Jones
141. “Don’t take your culture for granted. There needs to be a constant renewal of values that lead to camaraderie.”
142. “If someone’s performance is struggling or if they are acting in a way that is negatively impacting team dynamics, the primary question a leader needs to ask is, “Are they coachable?” Our goal, as leaders, is to ensure that our people have the skills—technical skills, human skills or leadership skills—so that they are equipped to work to their natural best and be a valuable asset to the team.”
143. “Millennials don't want to be managed, they like to be led, coached and mentored. This generation is on fire and ready to go. Are you ready to change the world?”
144. “Good players can’t overcome bad coaching.”
145. “Even though we can indeed raise our status with material goods, the feeling doesn’t last. There is no social relationship associated with that burst of serotonin. Again, the selfless chemicals are trying to help us strengthen our communities and social bonds. To find a lasting sense of pride, there must be a mentor/parent/boss/coach/leader relationship to back it up.”
146. “A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch, but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself.” – Charlie Wardle
147. “I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.”
148. “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi, American football coach and executive in the National Football League.
149. “He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.”
150. "If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you." - Fred DeVito
151. “Until you change the way that you look at things, those things will never change.” – Pat Riley Tweet:
152. “If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.” — Anne Lamott
153. “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” - Plato
154. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” – Vince Lombardi, head coach of the Green Bay Packers (1959-1967)
155. “Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.” - Jarod Kintz
156. “Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.” - Euripides
157. “As former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden said, “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
158. “Happiness begins where selfishness ends.”
159. “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.” Bob Nardelli
160. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi, legendary Green Bay Packers coach
161. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
162. “The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.” – Fred A. Manske Jr.
163. "Strong convictions precede great actions." - James Freeman Clarke
164. “Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.” – Bill Walsh, American football coach
165. “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.”
166. “Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.” ― Andrew Yang
167. "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'”. - Yoda
168. “Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.”
169. “All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.” ― Bill McCartney
170. “It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” - Adlai Stevenson
171. “Opportunities don’t knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen.” – Thomas Leonard
172. Always Give Your Best
173. “Culture is what leads when no one is watching.”
174. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
175. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”
176. “Only when a team member proves uncoachable—is resistant to feedback and takes no responsibility for how they show up at work—should we seriously consider removing them from the team.”
177. “Because he’s the one, coach. If we’re gonna make an impact here, the first domino needs to fall right inside of that man’s heart.” – Ted Lasso
178. “It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.”
179. “People don’t mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart.” – Ken Blanchard
180. “Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.” ― Phil Crosby
181. “There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that’s not training them and keeping them.” - Zig Ziglar
182. “Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Aristotle
183. “The most important culture message you send is the way you behave. If it’s not happening in you, it will never happen through you. If you don’t believe it, no one else will believe it.”
184. “Sometimes growing pains can feel like failure—and sometimes failure is part of the growth.”
185. “Focus!” my coach would bellow across the pool deck, his voice booming along the surface of the water. Our group was hanging off the side of the wall, huffing and puffing into the gutter, counting down those precious seconds until we would be sent off into another 200 fast of…
186. “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.” ~ Tiger Woods
187. “I love to challenge our coaches every day. I love for people to tell me what they think. And if they want to disagree, that’s even better… Iron sharpens iron. Out of the sharpening process come better ideas and more committed performance. I don’t want yes-men around me.”
188. "A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
189. “One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players’ lives. I like the fact that they’re student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.” ― Rick Majerus
190. “If you want to lead, first learn how to follow.” – Rick Beneteau
191. You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. - Ken Kesey
192. The worst day of coaching is better than the best day doing anything else.
193. “Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach. An investment of $30,000 or so in an executive who has responsibility for tens of millions of dollars is a rounding error.”
194. “The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.” - Unknown
195. “I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.” ― Billie Jean King
196. “He is a guy who is only going to accept winning. I like his attitude and his style of coaching and he loves to coach. He’s dedicated and determined. A coach can’t make a bad team into a good team, but he can make a good team into a better team.”
197. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” ― John Wooden
198. “With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” – Reese Witherspoon
199. “If you can’t coach your best player hard, you can’t coach your team hard.” – Gar Forman Tweet: If you can’t coach your best player hard, you can’t coach your team hard. - Gar Forman
200. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
201. “Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
202. “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” —Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys coach
203. “Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.” ― Steve Waugh
204. “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” – Lolly Daskal, founder of Lead From Within, and executive coach and leadership training firm
205. “A winning effort begins with preparation.” – Joe Gibbs Tweet: A winning effort begins with preparation. – Joe Gibbs
206. “There is truth in wine and children.” - Plato
207. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” Lou Holtz, football player, coach, and analyst
208. “Be quick, but don't hurry.”
209. “I heard you’re a player. Nice to meet you, I’m the coach.”
210. “Teamwork is really a form of trust It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues ” – Pat Summit, American basketball coach
211. “With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” - Reese Witherspoon
212. “In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.” – Carol Dweck
213. “My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.” – Steve Young, football player
214. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.”
215. “Here’s the not-so-hidden secret for achieving success: clarify what you really want, then work as hard as you can for as long as it takes. Toughness can achieve things that talent by itself can never accomplish.”
216. “Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people’s potential. Ask more, give advice less, and elevate your impact forever.” – Farshad Asl
217. “In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people; they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” - Ken Blanchard
218. Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation. – William Arthur Ward
219. “they are offering an opportunity for lifetime employment for those who want it, then the leaders of the company have to work hard to bring in the right people. “Firing is an easy option,” Kim says. “Tough love, coaching, even a program to help people find a job somewhere else if they decide our company is not for them are all much more effective, but require much more time and attention from the company.”
220. “Everyone needs a coach, whether it’s a top level executive, a graduate student, a homemaker, a homeless person or the President of the United States.” Anthony Robbins
221. “If I hadn’t had mentors, I wouldn’t be here today. I’m a product of great mentoring, great coaching. Coaches or mentors are very important. They could be anyone–your husband, other family members, or your boss.” - Indra Nooyl
222. “The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.” ~ Knute Rockne
223. "Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” - Robin S. Sharma
224. “Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.” – Phil Crosby Tweet: Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. - Phil Crosby
225. “I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That’s a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.” – Ted Lasso
226. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ― John Wooden
227. “When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!”
228. “Leadership requires discipline, sacrifice, the ability to make people believe in the impossible. No one said anything about easy.” - Sophia Maguire
229. “Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”
230. “My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” ― Robin S. Sharma
231. “What I learned is that if a coach lacks sufficient persistence, he will be unable to complete the critical task of finding growth opportunities out of adversity.” Seth Davis
232. “I’m not really a big X’s and O’s guy, but if you want to go there, I’m more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that’s the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it’s what it’s about.” — Kyrie Irving
233. But this coach was saying that really successful people feel the same lack of motivation as everyone else. The difference is that they still find a way to show up despite the feelings of boredom.»
234. “The problem with being a leader is that you’re never sure if you’re being followed or chased.” - Claire A. Murray
235. “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.” ― Bobby Knight
236. “Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person’s success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done.”
237. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership,
238. “I really enjoyed coaching.” ― Joe Paterno
239. “My best investment is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” – Robin S. Sharma
240. “People do not experience your intentions; they experience your behavior.”
241. “Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.”
242. “Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.” ― John Wooden
243. “The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.” ~ Curt Schilling
244. A father is the perfect blend of superhero, coach, and friend. —Jeannie Hund
245. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis
246. “Best trait: the ability to accept coaching as just coaching; taking nothing personally. It’s about making you better!” – Mark Seidenburg Tweet: Best trait: the ability to accept coaching as just coaching; taking nothing personally. It’s about making you better! - Mark Seidenburg
247. “The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” - Casey Stengel
248. “The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
249. “Discipline yourself and others won't need to.”
250. “Build for your team a sense of oneness, of depending on one another, and of strength to be derived by unity.” – Vince Lombardi, football coach
251. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
252. “Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It’s why coaches become coaches.” ― Jill Ellis
253. “Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.” CNN
254. “Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
255. “Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.” – CNN Tweet: “Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.” - CNN, via @cfsplaybook
256. To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. —Pat Riley
257. “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
258. “UCLA basketball coach John Wooden told players who scored to give a smile, wink, or nod to the player who gave them a good pass. “What if he’s not looking?” asked a team member. Wooden replied, “I guarantee he’ll look.” Everyone values encouragement and looks for it.”
259. “The more we give of ourselves to see others succeed, the greater our value to the group and the more respect they offer us. The more respect and recognition we receive, the higher our status in the group and the more incentive we have to continue to give to the group. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work. Whether we are a boss, coach or parent, serotonin is working to encourage us to serve those for whom we are directly responsible. And if we are the employee, player or the one being looked after, the serotonin encourages us to work hard to make them proud.”
260. “Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone.” – Brené Brown
261. “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo
262. “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all-time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” ― Vince Lombardi
263. My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
264. “You don’t have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.” - Les Brown
265. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” – John Maxwell
266. A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. – Arnold H. Glasow
267. He makes plays you can’t coach, and he makes plays that look like he’s never been coached.
268. “One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.” – Jim Yong Kim
269. “Two cars parked side by side. One is a supercar, the other is an old family sedan. Both have the same potential until someone gets in to the supercar and drives it flat out. The coach can have the best strategy but unless its driven its potential means nothing.”
270. “The goal of a life coach is to help the client become who they really are by shading who they are not.” - Aiyaz Uddin
271. “The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.” ~Ralph Waldodirt track racing quotes
272. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” - Brian Tracy
273. “Good leadership isn’t about advancing yourself. It’s about advancing your team.” – John Maxwell
274. “Champions are brilliant at the basics.”
275. “In our program, the truth is the basis of all that we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there’s nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell one another the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.”
276. “We believe that being elite is not about how talented you are. It is about how tough you are. To achieve anything great in life, you have to fight for it.”
277. Be the player their coach warned them about.
278. “Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom.” ― Pat Summitt
279. People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever. - Author: Bill Russell
280. “Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.” – Bill Hybels
281. “We’re a part of this university in many respects. You can’t put a price tag on that. This has been the perfect place to coach and teach and learn… No matter how appealing another option was, to lead my Duke team with all my heart could only happen at this place.”
282. “Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”
283. “Failure is never quite as frightening as regret.” ― Anonymous
284. “I don’t complain about playing time. My job is to play so well that my coach can’t sit me.” – Shane Battier
285. “The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
286. “I’ll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn’t pay enough attention to developing their leaders.”
287. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” —Vince Lombardi, football coach
288. “Most people respond well to honest feedback, particularly when it comes from a coach and not an accuser, who offers it within the context of results, and accompanies it with an invitation to provide similarly candid feedback.”
289. The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. – Eric Hoffer
290. “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” - Isaac Asimov
291. “For a company to grow 10x, it doesn’t need your managing, it needs self-managing.”
292. “Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
293. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
294. “The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers … Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.” - Gary Wills
295. “Healthy organizations believe that performance management is almost exclusively about eliminating confusion. They realize that most of their employees want to succeed, and that the best way to allow them to do that is to give them clear direction, regular information about how they’re doing, and access to the coaching they need.”
296. “Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.” – Elaine MacDonald
297. “Confidence comes from being prepared.”
298. “Far more coaches fail to achieve success because they lack ability to develop team culture rather than because they lack good direction or knowledge of the game.”
299. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend.
300. I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That's a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.
301. “Without access to mentors and organization sponsors who can provide much-needed advice, coaching, and counsel, many of us are not prepared for the real game that is being played. It is as if we are trying to play soccer on a baseball diamond.”
302. “A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” – Elaine MacDonald
303. “Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better than average odds of success and making the change stick for the long term.” The Ivy Business Journal
304. “Victory or defeat is not determined at the moment of crisis, but rather in the long and unspectacular period of preparation.” ― Anonymous
305. “I could not be more proud of the countless lives that I have changed since I began my coaching and mentoring career!”
306. “With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything.” — Reese Witherspoon
307. “You recover better when you tell your family, a friend, or a support group what you are feeling. If you’d like them just to listen and not problem solve while you talk, let them know. If you want some suggestions and coaching on what to do, let them know that.” – Al Siebert
308. “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.”
309. “You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
310. “AS IF THE abstracting qualities of numbers and scale aren’t enough to deal with when trying to run an organization, these days we have the added complication of the virtual world. The Internet is nothing short of awe inspiring. It gives the power to operate at scale or spread ideas to anyone, be it a small business or a social movement. It gives us the ability to find and connect with people more easily. And it is incredible at speeding the pace of commercial transactions. All of these things are good. But, just as money was developed to help expedite and simplify transactions by allowing payment to be rendered without barter, we often use the Internet as a means to expedite and simplify communication and the relationships we build. And just as money can’t buy love, the Internet can’t buy deep, trusting relationships. What makes a statement like that somewhat tricky or controversial is that the relationships we form online feel real. We can, indeed, get bursts of serotonin when people “like” our pictures, pages or posts or when we watch ourselves go up in a ranking (you know how much serotonin loves a ranking). The feelings of admiration we get from virtual “likes” or the number of followers we have is not like the feelings of admiration we get from our children, or that a coach gets from their players. It is simply a public display of “like” with no sacrifice required—a new kind of status symbol, if you will. Put simply, though the love may feel real, the relationship is still virtual. Relationships can certainly start online, but they only become real when we meet face-to-face.”
311. “Failure is so important. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” - J.K. Rowling
312. “A life coach? What does that mean? It doesn’t mean anything, does it? So they ‘coach’ people on how to live their lives? Why don’t they mind their own fucking business?” - Karl Wiggins
313. “Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” - Lewis Grizzard
314. “My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.”—Steve YoungRD.COM
315. “The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers … Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.” – Gary Wills
316. “Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life.” – Chicago Tribune Tweet: Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life. - Chicago Tribune
317. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” - Thomas A. Edison
318. “Good performance accountability is about having a positive conversation between manager and employee. A manager is a coach and communicator, not command and controller.”
319. “There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” – Tom Krause
320. “You can’t stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.” – Nkem Mpamah
321. The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
322. “There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” - Will Rogers
323. “A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.” – Tom Landry
324. “Average leaders have quotes. Good leaders have a plan. Exceptional leaders have a system.”
325. "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
326. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
327. “You can always do more than you think you can.”
328. “Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.” ― Chuck Knox, former NFL head coach
329. “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” – Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys coach
330. “Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.” - Ben Carson
331. “It’s what you learn, after you know it all, that counts.” ― John Wooden
332. “I believe that wherever there is mastery coaching is occurring, and whenever coaching is done, mastery will be the outcome.” – Andrea Lee Tweet: I believe that wherever there is mastery coaching is occurring, and whenever coaching is done, mastery will be the outcome. – Andrea Lee
333. "If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right." - Henry Ford
334. “Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t.” - Jim Collins
335. “As a human that has a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, and a mental health advocate and educator, one quote I say a LOT both to myself and when I am teaching is: ‘Feelings aren’t facts but feelings do have power.’ In other words, when I am feeling really down or when my depression kicks in, I have to remind myself that the feelings that I am feeling—no, I can’t build a house with them, they are ‘just feelings.’ BUT, if I don’t listen to them, if I don’t take care of myself, then I am giving that feeling a TON of power that it does not deserve.” – Archie Messersmith-Bunting, M.S., MHFA, mental wellness coach
336. “Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.” – Bill Gates Tweet: Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. - Bill Gates
337. “A coach is part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”
338. “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team ” – John Wooden, American basketball coach
339. “Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want more out of life.” ― Chicago Tribune
340. Respect Is Earned
341. “There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that’s not training them and keeping them.” – Zig Ziglar
342. “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” ― Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football coach
343. “If players are going to make the big push to join the elites, they need to believe it will be worth it. It’s important to remind them of the quality of the leadership at Ohio State — let them know they are being taught by masters of their craft who have made a significant difference in other players’ lives.”
344. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
345. “Coaching works because it’s all about you. When you connect with what you really want and why – and take action – magical things can happen.” - Emma-Louise Elsey andy Motzek
346. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. – Harold S. Geneen
347. “I realized that life had much more to offer than I had anticipated and decided to help others in their human journey. Therefore, I became a trainer and a coach with passion for transformation.” Ann Betz
348. “Understanding how the brain works in social situations is like having a cheat sheet for human behaviour. This empowers coaches to facilitate growth at a whole new level." - Manie Bosman
349. “In a recent study, training alone improved leadership skills by 22%. When combined with Executive Coaching, improvement jumps to 77%.”
350. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
351. “Don’t ever ask a player to do something he doesn’t have the ability to do. He’ll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.”
352. “Good coaches tell you where the fish are, great coaches teach you how to find them.”
353. “Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” - Plato
354. “Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” - Steve Jobs
355. “I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football.” — Jen Welter, American football coach.
356. “The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled.”
357. “Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.” – Barbara de Angelis
358. "A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops." - John J Pershing
359. “Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
360. “Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.”
361. “When I was a young coach I used to say, “Treat everybody alike.” That’s bull. Treat everybody fairly.”
362. The most powerful and effective managers, coaches, parents, and motivators are those who can represent the circumstances of life to themselves and to others in a way that signals success to the nervous system in spite of seemingly hopeless external stimuli.
363. “I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don’t need a lot of talent.” – Bear Bryant
364. “Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. “Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling.” Bobby shook his head. “No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job.”
365. “The hot seat is equated with every program who expects to win championships.” – Malzahn
366. “Make every day your masterpiece. ”
367. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” - Malcolm Muggeridge
368. “There are certain aspects that I miss of coaching. But you can’t just pick out the good parts. You’ve got to be all-in and understand there’s some negatives, too.” ― Jeff Van Gundy
369. “It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Tina Fey
370. “In 1998, K. C. Jones, then coach of the Boston Celtics, mentioned to a CBS Sports interviewer, “I give the players a lot of leeway on the court, so they can use their imagination and creativity.” “Doesn’t that cause problems?” the interviewer asked. “No,” responded Jones. “We’ve been in the championship four of the past five years, and won it twice.” Jones’ approach to coaching illustrates a central truth about creativity: it requires autonomy.”
371. “A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.”― Bobby Knight
372. “Take your basketball posts to the next level with our collection of hard-hitting and motivational captions. Perfect for players, coaches, and fans alike, these captions will help you express your passion for the game. Whether you’re sharing your training routine, posting game highlights, or sharing a motivational quote, our captions will help you show off your dedication and hard work. From inspirational quotes to relatable one-liners, our captions will give your posts the edge they need to stand out.
373. “A brother is the best gift for a girl, for he will always be her biggest partner in crime, her biggest critic, her biggest coach, and her biggest savior in life.”
374. “Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.”
375. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
376. “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
377. “Perfectionism is a lost cause. Focus your energy on being the best you can be.” - Domonique Bertolucci
378. “Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.” - Vince Lombardi
379. “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.” - Myles Munroe
380. “Don’t give in. Step up and embrace the grind.”
381. “How you coach them is how they’re going to play.” ― Stefan Fatsis
382. “Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” - Sloan Wilson
383. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” – John Wooden
384. “Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.” – Mike Krzyzewski Tweet: Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits. - Mike Krzyzewski
385. “Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.”
386. The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
387. “Listen if you want to be heard.”
388. “Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.”
389. “As a leader, how do you get the most out of people? Give your most to them. People notice giving and taking. Leaders give!” – Kevin Eastman Tweet: As a leader, how do you get the most out of people? Give your most to them. People notice giving and taking. Leaders give! - Kevin Eastman
390. “Good players want to be coached… Great players want to be told the truth.”
391. "In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
392. All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do. – Kenneth Blanchard
393. “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” - Indira Gandhi
394. “If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them.” - Jack Welch
395. “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?”― Jill Ellis
396. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend.” — Tiger Woods
397. “A manager is a title, it does not guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes!” Catherine Pulsifer
398. “I think one of the neatest things about being a coach is the connection you get to make with your players. That’s a loss that hits me a lot harder and is gonna stay with me a lot longer than anything that happens while playing a game on a patch of grass.” -Ted Lasso
399. “Your heart has to be in whatever you lead. It became apparent that this decision was somewhat easier to make because you have to follow your heart and lead with it and Duke has always taken up my whole heart… The allure of coaching in college has no price. It’s one of those priceless things. I’ve never made a decision based on what will get me the most money. It was what was going to give me the most happiness and I’ve been really happy and fulfilled at Duke.”
400. "The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world." - Arlene Rankin
401. “The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” - Plato
402. Coching for Results, and The Superstar Coaching Self-Study Guide.
403. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
404. “We are not measured by our intentions, but by our actions.”
405. Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. - Mark Rippetoe
406. “I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.” ― Phil Jackson
407. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
408. “Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.” – John Wooden Tweet: Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details. – John Wooden
409. “I don’t complain about playing time. My job is to play so well that my coach can’t sit me.”
410. “You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on… Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.”
411. “Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from ‘I can’t do this’ to ‘I must do this’.” - Toni Sorensen
412. “Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.” - John Wooden
413. “The [best] coaches… know that the job is to win… know that they must be decisive, that they must phase people through their organizations, and at the same time they are sensitive to the feelings, loyalties, and emotions that people have toward one another. If you don’t have these feelings, I do not know how you can lead anyone. I have spent many sleepless nights trying to figure out how I was going to phase out certain players for whom I had strong feelings, but that was my job. I wasn’t hired to do anything but win.”
414. “People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves.” – Ricardo Semler
415. “The absolute bottom line in coaching is organization and preparing for practice.” ― Bill Walsh
416. 89 You wear so many hats. You’re my friend, confidant, motivational speaker, life coach, and I could go on. Please keep wearing all those hats…they look great on you! Happy birthday!
417. “Coaching is one of the most effective leadership styles that can transform, empower and unlock people’s potential. Ask more, give advice less, and elevate your impact forever.” - Farshad Aslo
418. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”
419. “The most important thing in coaching is communication. It’s not what you say as much as what they absorb.” – Red Auerbach Tweet: The most important thing in coaching is communication. It’s not what you say as much as what they absorb. - Red Auerbach
420. “Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals.”
421. “A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support and then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.”
422. “One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.” - Jim Yong Kim
423. “Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.”
424. Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need. —Mike Krzyzewski
425. “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband, and friend.” – Tiger Woods
426. “My coach said I run like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.”- Mia Hamm
427. “To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” –Pat Riley
428. “Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.” - Steve Backley
429. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."— Tim Notke, basketball coach
430. “Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that.” - Ellen Degeneres
431. "The most powerful and effective managers, coaches, parents, and motivators are those who can represent the circumstances of life to themselves and to others in a way that signals success to the nervous system in spite of seemingly hopeless external stimuli."
432. “Another great coach, Bill Walsh (who oversaw three Super Bowl Championship teams at the San Francisco 49ers), emphasized the importance of personal and positive encouragement. Walsh would shake hands and say a positive personal word of encouragement to every player just before each game. He also asked his assistant coaches to acknowledge each player, shake his hand, and offer supportive thoughts.”
433. “Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won’t let me be selfish.” – Lebron James
434. “I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.” ― Morgan Wootten
435. “Exceptional teams are built on a foundation of deep trust. In order to train and compete at an elite level, you must push each other very hard… But you can push only to the level of trust you have built with each other and with your coaches.”
436. “Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.” – Plutarch
437. “It isn't the challenge that defines you. It;s what you do with it.” - Sharon Pearson
438. “We’ve created a jealous-free zone?… We look each other in the eye. We tell each other the truth. And we trust each other.”
439. “I learned this about coaching: You don’t have to explain victory and you can’t explain defeat.” ― Darrell Royal
440. "Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer." - Barbara de Angelis
441. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches. - Jack Canfield.
442. “More than thirty years ago I memorized a quote that has shaped the way I live: “My potential is God’s gift to me. What I do with my potential is my gift to Him.” I believe I am accountable to God, others, and myself for every gift, talent, resource, and opportunity I have in life. If I give less than my best, then I am shirking my responsibility. I believe UCLA coach John Wooden was speaking to this idea when he said, “Make every day your masterpiece.” If we give our very best all the time, we can make our lives into something special. And that will overflow into the lives of others.”
443. “A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” - Elaine MacDonald
444. “Techniques don’t produce quality products or pick up the garbage on time. People do, people who care, people who are treated as creatively contributing adults.” – Tom Peters
445. “Competitive excellence is putting in the work necessary to remove all doubt in your ability to win your individual battle.”
446. “But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.” ― Reese Witherspoon
447. In my estimation; which by the way comes from 32 years of training and over 20 years of hands-on coaching, 99% of the weight trainees of the world have 'real lives'. By 'real lives' I mean they have real life responsibilities / loves such as family, career, academic, spiritual, and social to name a few. The flip side of this is that most of the training information that these 99% use, comes from trainees who don't have real lives - their only responsibility (or choice thereof) is to train, eat, sleep, and more than likely take steroids. Even some of the rare well-intentioned writers gleam most of their training info from these trainees. These programs or even toned-down derivatives of these programs will not work (or work very well) for you. Be honest. If you have been trying to make a program work for you that is based on the information derived from the 1% - is it really getting you to where you want to be? I know it isn't. - John Christy
448. “The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill
449. “I’ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we’ll win again, but I’ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.”
450. "We have the innate ability to inhibit or ‘veto’ automated neural responses. We can control our thoughts, emotions and behaviour, and losing control is no excuse for deviant behaviour. So no, we are not controlled by a 'lizard in our head', unless of course, we choose to be." - Manie Bosman
451. “I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.” - Jurgen Klopp
452. “Leadership is an inside job before it is about others.” - Sharon Pearson
453. My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
454. “The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says “I”; the leader, “we.” The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, “Go”; the leader says, “Let’s go!”
455. “That’s the art of coaching right now. They have to feel loved. They have to feel positive but at the same time have that edge to them, the uncomfortable feeling they’re going to fight and work really, really hard.” – Ryan Day
456. You have always told me I could do anything I wanted in life and encouraged me to pursue my dreams. You have been a source of constant inspiration and support. Happy birthday to my husband who also doubles as my life coach!
457. “Trust is earned through your behavior, not granted by your position. And it is earned through repeated behavior over time.”
458. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
459. Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control. —Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys coach
460. “When things aren’t going right, the most important thing you can do is slow down, go deep, and figure out why. It is very easy in the world we live in to get so caught up in the tyranny of the urgent that we don’t make time to think.”
461. “People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves.” - Ricardo Semler
462. “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham Maslow
463. “If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa. – Bill Parcells” Tweet: If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa. - Bill Parcells
464. “Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.”
465. “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano, college basketball coach
466. “Many of the World’s most admired corporations, from GE to Goldman Sachs, invest in coaching. Annual spending on coaching in the US is estimated at roughly $1 Billion Dollars.”
467. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” - Shrek
468. “Players suffer coaching changes all the time; it’s life in the NFL.” ― Michael Wilbon
469. “Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.”
470. “The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.” – Eric Schmidt Tweet: The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best. - Eric Schmidt
471. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
472. “Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?” ― Dennis E. Mannering and Wendy K. Mannering
473. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
474. “I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games – rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.”
475. “The best coaches really care about people. They have a sincere interest in people.” Byron & Catherine Pulsifer”
476. “You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
477. “To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.” ― Morgan Wootten
478. "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." - Andrew Carnegie
479. “The strength of a team is determined by the strength of the connections on the team. A great team requires great relationships.”
480. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy
481. A good leader is someone who can help people see the invisible and believe in the incredible. – Simon Sinek
482. "The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled." - Ric Charlesworth
483. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. – African proverb
484. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh
485. “Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.” — Phil Jackson, American former professional basketball player and coach.
486. “Sometimes it’s a grind. Sometimes tedious and uncomfortable things are required for success. And that means doing what needs to be done even though you don’t feel like it.”
487. “See people in the light of their potentials, not their problems.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
488. “I wish all professionals knew that vulnerability in the workplace could be a powerful tool, not just a sign of weakness. It’s important to create a culture where people feel safe and comfortable being vulnerable. It leads to more open communication, trust and connection between colleagues,” says Emma Williams, a certified strengths and career coach and the Chief Research Officer at HIGH5. “We have been conditioned to believe showing vulnerability, especially at work, is a sign of weakness. However, what we now know is that expressing vulnerability, especially when you are leading others, is a significant sign of strength and courage,” adds Barbie Winterbottom, HR consultant and CEO of The Business of HR.
489. “Money won’t make you happy … but everybody wants to find out for themselves.” - Zig Ziglar
490. “The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical clients within just a few weeks.”
491. “Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.”
492. “Hey softball pitcher: be that player that coaches warn their team about. ” – Unknown
493. “When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.”
494. “Now for the interesting question: If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed? For example, if you were a basketball coach and you ignored your goal to win a championship and focused only on what your team does at practice each day, would you still get results? I think you would.”
495. “Discipline and demand without being demeaning.” – Don Meyer Tweet: Discipline and demand without being demeaning. - Don Meyer
496. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. - Robin S. Sharma
497. “Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.”
498. “Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.” —Rasheed Ogunlaru, motivational speaker and life coach
499. “Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke basketball coach
500. “You don’t demand respect, you earn it.” ― Steve Seidler
501. “A great coach is hard to find, but impossible to forget.”
502. “If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.”
503. “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.” – Bob Nardelli Tweet: I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities. - Bob Nardelli
504. “I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.” – John Russell
505. “That’s the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives. You get to make a difference.” – Morgan Wootten
506. “My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.” ― Tiger Woods
507. “A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on “x’s and o’s” as compared to time spent learning about people.” ― Mike Krzyzewski
508. “I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.” ― Jill Ellis
509. “I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.” ― Scotty Bowman
510. “The coach is someone who gets you to do what you don’t want to do so that you can be who you want to be.” – Tom Landry Tweet: The coach is someone who gets you to do what you don’t want to do so that you can be who you want to be. - Tom Landry
511. "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
512. “I believe that wherever there is mastery, coaching is occurring and whenever coaching is done, mastery will be the outcome.” Andrea J. Lee
513. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” -Tim Notke, coach
514. “People will exceed targets they set themselves.” – Gordon Dryden Tweet: People will exceed targets they set themselves. - Gordon Dryden
515. “My best investment is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” - Robin S. Sharma
516. “The culture is the only acceptable standard of performance.”
517. “If we were supposed to talk more than we listen we would have two mouths and one ear.” ― Mark Twain
518. “Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” - Henry Ford
519. “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.” - Winston Churchill
520. “Good coaching may be defined as the development of character, personality and habits of players, plus the teaching of fundamentals and team play.” ― Claire Bee
521. “Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.”
522. “People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it’s a leader’s responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, its members want to show you their hearts.”
523. “On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable.”
524. “The manager needs to have a coaching mindset, looking for opportunities to help others learn…. The coach and coachee relationship must be one that rests on a foundation of trust that can allow the coaching dialogue to take place.” James M. Hunt
525. “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” - John Maxwell
526. “I get a group of people who are talented to commit to excellence and to work together as one. That’s where it starts. Different talents, same commitment.”
527. “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
528. “Having the opportunity to learn from others is a privilege that I’m truly thankful for. I love soaking up everything my coaches/mentors tell me. If I have one piece of advice for you today, it’s be coachable.”
529. “Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I’m no different.” ― Bill Parcells
530. Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. – Frank Lloyd Wright
531. “You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” - John C. Maxwell
532. “Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.”
533. “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.”
534. “The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.” - Fred A. Manske Jr.
535. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
536. “Everyone’s ideas should be heard. It doesn’t matter who gets credit. As long as you’re working towards the same mission and shared purpose.”
537. “I believe God gave us crises for some reason—and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad. A crisis can be a momentous time for a team to grow—if a leader handles it properly.”
538. “Flexibility is the key to stability.”
539. “But this year, as I stand here to speak to you, I am no longer the Under Secretary,” he continued. “I flew here coach class and when I arrived at the airport yesterday there was no one there to meet me. I took a taxi to the hotel, and when I got there, I checked myself in and went by myself to my room. This morning, I came down to the lobby and caught another taxi to come here. I came in the front door and found my way backstage. Once there, I asked one of the techs if there was any coffee. He pointed to a coffee machine on a table against the wall. So I walked over and poured myself a cup of coffee into this here Styrofoam cup,” he said as he raised the cup to show the audience.
540. Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won’t let me be selfish.
541. “My dad has a certain spirit, a twinkle in his eye, someone who can set a certain standard for players but also convey it with humor. What I learned from him is that coaching is, more than anything, about connecting with people.” ― Jill Ellis
542. "I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership. - Lee Iacocca
543. "I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times." - Everett Dirksen
544. “Those who tell the stories rule society.” - Plato
545. “Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.” ― John Wooden
546. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
547. “The business demand for coaching is nearly doubling each year. Out of the $80 billion being currently spent on corporate education, FLI Research estimates that $2 billion is spent on executive coaching at senior executive levels in Fortune 500 companies.”
548. “Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.” – Pete Carroll
549. “What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180……as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.”
550. “You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa
551. Actions speak louder than your coaches.
552. “Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one.”
553. “I never look back, darling. It distracts me from the now.” - Edna Mode