C Quotes
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“Coach told me once, when I was too busy screwing around to pay attention that the only way he could get through to me, make me hear him was to spell everything out. I wanted you to hear me.”
Source: Hear Me Now
“Coach told the team, 'You're going to take a hit. How you respond is more important than taking the hit. Toughness is not what young players think it is. Its not just beating the hell of the guy across the line. That's why I talked about commitment and discipline before i got to the toughness.
The definition of toughness is not merely physical. You've got to be mentally tough on and off the field. Being committed to the process and having discipline and effort to do it is going to be tough. Being able to not look at the scoreboard is going to be tough. Being able to not talk back to coaches will be tough. Not ever talking to an official will be tough.”
Source: Skull Session: Mastering the Mental Game in Sports, Work, and Life
“Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.”
“Coach was going to make us do striders today, but I talked him out of it”
“Coach Wooden preached against comparisons and external rewards, and for focusing on becoming your best.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“Coach Wooden’s approach succeeded: Setting challenging expectations appropriate to each individual; getting to know each individual well and caring for each as a person; tailoring his instructions and support to individual differences; and treating everyone with respect and fairness. It succeeded for him in the classroom, on the court, and in life.”
Source: You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles And Practices
“Coach your customers in the area of your expertise”
Source: Get To The Top
“Coach's Rule: never admit a lack of experience or knowledge. Carry on at all times as though you've guided a hundred champion crews. Honesty is not the best policy when leading a bunch of college rowers. They are looking for strong, disciplined leadership and not a kinder, gentler coach. Once you've established a certain attitude and demeanor, it's nearly impossible to change to a difference mode in mid-season.”
“Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll-I'll Terminus you, buddy!”
“Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.”
“Coachable leaders come to a coaching session with an unquenchable desire to improve. They want to improve themselves, their leadership, their relationships, and their ministries or organizations. They reject the status quo, they refuse mediocrity, and they recognize plateaus and push beyond them.”
Source: Ten Marks of a Coachable Leader
“Coachable leaders stick with it even when the going gets tough. They push through the quitting points with a level head.”
Source: Ten Marks of a Coachable Leader
“Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.”
“Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.”
“Coaches and ownership are just like the fans on the street. They can always do it better, and they would always have done it differently when it doesn't work out.”
“Coaches and players at the start must think their way through problems where a more experienced person would react out of habit and memory. One must not gain this experience, however, without being careful of empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of 20 years of experience at his craft while, in fact, all he has had is one year - 20 times.”
“Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.”
“Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.”
“Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.”
“Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.”
“Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.”
“Coaches are sales people and change agents.”
“Coaches are very important to players. They're people that are mentors, people that are advising them, people that should be their friends and somebody you can rely on on the tour.”
“Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.”
“Coaches build teams, parents build players.”
“Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.”
“Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.”
“Coaches do get very nervous.”
“Coaches do so much research about a referee because they believe refereeing is such a crucial part of the game that the result may hinge on what we say or do. They probably know more about me than I know myself!”
“Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.”
“Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.”
“Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.”
“Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.”
“Coaches must be flexible, for then they won't get bent out of shape.”
“Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“Coaches need to have a vision.”
“Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.”
“Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.”
“Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things.”
“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.”
“Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.”
“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”
Source: The winner within: a life plan for team players
“Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.”
“Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.”
“Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.”
“Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.”
“Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers.”
Source: This Book Has No Title
“Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.”
“Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against.”
“Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.”