These Coaching Quotes can inspire you to achieve greatness. A coach can make or break a team. Most often, the fortunes of a team depending on the whims of one man – the coach.
Many great coaches have played the most important role in steering their teams to make history. It is not always that star player who is the most valuable asset. Coaches can get even the worst of players to become stars.
Here are some inspiring Coaching Quotes to inspire you as a player or in your day-to-day living to excel and succeed in your calling. Every great coach has something to teach to the world. Let’s hope you will find the perfect motivation.
Coach Quotes
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
John Wooden
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
George Halas – Check out the Chicago Bears Fan Guide.
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.
Phil Crosby
Coaching is an action, not a title, and actions result in success.
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The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled.
Ric Charlesworth
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
Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.
John Madden
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi – More Vince Lombardi Quotes.
Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique.
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Quotes About Coaches
Coaches are aware of how to ignite passion and motivate people. They have an energy that is contagious and knows exactly how to get their team excited.
Brian Cagney
A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.
John Wooden
You must be personally reliable before you can coach your team to generate reliable results.
Lee Colan
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Ara Parasheghian
Successful coaches are visionaries. They have a picture of success set in their minds.
Gavin McGinnis
As their coach, your job is to set the bar high, inspire them to reach this bar, encourage them, and most of all, guide them in the best possible manner and in the most supportive environment.
John Popovich
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.
John Madden
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Bobby Knight
Funny Coaching Quotes
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
You need to be more like a dog; we don’t need a bunch of cats in here – meow, looking in the mirror.
David Bennett
Son, you’ve got a good engine, but your hands aren’t on the steering wheel.
Bobby Bowden
My entire adult life, I’ve never used the expression game face. I have no idea what that means or what you’re supposed to do.
Bobby Knight
I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.
Bear Bryant
If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.
Murray Warmath
Check out 7 Ways to Build Confidence in Young Athletes.
Game Day Quotations
I don’t believe in team motivation.
I believe in getting a team prepared, so it knows
it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field
and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry
Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
When it’s a game situation when it’s game day, a game-time when it’s World Cup, when it’s these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that. I live for that challenge.
Tiffany Milbrett
If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn’t like me. The days in between, I’m the goodest, guy you can find.
Roger Clemens
It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough is being good every day.
Willie Mays
While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. Yesterday’s performance was already in history.
Bill Sharman
You don’t show up on the game day and expect to be great. Greatness happens in practice. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan
About Players
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
On good teams, coaches hold players accountable. On great teams, players hold players accountable.
Joe Dumars
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda
I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players, or coaches.
Sachin Tendulkar
I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three-star players.
Pele
The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
Jose Raul Capablanca
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
John Wooden
My advice to defensive players: Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.
Bowden Wyatt
About Coaching
Coaching is a profession of love.
You can’t coach people unless you love them.
Eddie Robinson
Failure is good. It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching, I’ve learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
Pat Conroy
Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.
Eddie Robinson
Everything in coaching hinges on listening because what we are listening for affects where we are speaking from.
Marilyn Atkinson
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
Each person holds so much power within themselves that it 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
The power of coaching is this – you are expected to give people the path to find answers, not the answers.
Tom Mahalo
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
Bill McCartney
Inspirational Coaching Quotes
Talent is God-given – be humble. Fame is man-given – be thankful. Conceit is self-given – be careful.
John Wooden
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
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
Jimmy Johnson
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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
To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs.
Joe Gibbs
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
Motivational Coaching Quotes
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
Elaine MacDonald
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsh
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
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy
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
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
Steve Backley
I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.
Bob Nardelli
Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while – you do them right all the time.
Vince Lombardi
Quotes to Encourage
Champions behave like champions before they are champions.
Bill Walsh
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer.
Phil Dixon
They have to understand that it’s O.K. to have good days and bad days.
Dawn Staley
Who, exactly, seeks out a coach?…Winners who want even more out of life.
Chicago Tribune
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is a coach, author, and founder of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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