“As always I am focused on training and coaching my team.” TeamTrainingFocusedCoaching Author:Rafael Benitez
“I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.” YearsImportantBigsFourTeamToughErrorsTrialsManagersLeagueCoachingFour YearsTrial And Error Author:Jim Leyland
“Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.” MeanSpiritPlayerSacrificeTeamWillingBasketballWelfareCoachingConsiderationNbaTeam SpiritTeam Player Author:John Wooden
“Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.” IndividualForceTeamBasketballLoyaltyCoachingNba Author:John Wooden
“We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.” IfsWantFeelsSchoolGuyAsksDifficultPlayerRiskTeamHonorDebtCoachesCoachingInjuryStaffTigersDifficult ThingsLsuCoaching Staff Author:Les Miles
“Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.” TryingYearsDifferentEnjoyTeamTalentCoachingRelative Author:Pete Lembo
“To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.” NeedsLeaderSuccessfulTeamTreatsCoachingBeing Successful Author:Morgan Wootten
“Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.” PeopleMenBigsHappensTeamPercentShotsIncludingCoachesCoachingNbaHookNinetyBail Author:Tom Heinsohn
“I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.” WantTryingMindGamesSidesTermInterestingTeamInvolvedBattleApproachInternationalCoachingNot InterestedCricketGet InvolvedShort TermKeep TryingIntriguingNew ZealandUphill Battles Author:Glenn Turner
“One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul.” ShouldMindHeartMaySoulCharacterBodyAmericaSpiritualitySportsPerfectTeachTeamEthicsMythCoachesCoachingVirtuousIntegratingVenues Author:Joe Ehrmann
“In 10 years, I'm gonna be all over. I'll still be doing mad music, I'll be doing a couple movies, maybe some TV. Hopefully coaching some of my son's sports teams and be in heavy daddy mode.” YearsStillsSportsTeamSonTvsCoupleMadHeavyHopefullyCoachingMy SonDaddySports Team Author:Shwayze
“He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.” GivingGamesTeamAvailableEnvyAdmireEnthusiasmCoachingCentsCricketManualsCricketers Author:Mahendra Singh Dhoni
“The most important thing is team morale.” ImportantTeamBasketballImportant ThingsCoachingBasketball CoachingMoraleBasketball Coach Author:Dean Smith
“The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.” WayUsedTeamBasketballBest WayCoachingSubstitutesChemistryBasketball Coaching Author:Dean Smith
“I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.” SchoolGamesPlayerTeamBasketballHigh SchoolCoachesCoachingScoreTeammateBasketball CoachingBasketball CoachRecruitDisrespected Author:Dean Smith
“A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.” WantImportantJobsLastsCoursesGamesChanceTeamMinutesPositionSevenCoachingNbaClosing Author:Doug Collins
“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” I CanMotivationalSportsCan DoAbilityQualityAcceptingPlayerTeamCapableAthleteCoachingMotivational Sports Author:Lou Holtz
“I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?” IfsGivingAmericaMovingOpportunityPlayerTeamExampleGiving UpMoving ForwardCoachingZonePrimeHockeySovietMentalityDumpNorth AmericaPuckJust Give UpHockey Player Author:Gabe Polsky
“We talk in coaching about "winners" - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win.” ThinkingImportantKidsWinningLosesTeamCoachesWinnerCoachingEmphasisWill To Win Author:Bobby Knight
“Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. Team members not confident in their roles lose motivation quickly.” MotivationLosesRolesTeamMembersTrainingEntrepreneurBudgetsCoachingExpensiveCashFoundersTeam Member Author:Martin Zwilling
“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.” PeopleWritingTwoDifferentSoulMatterGroupsTeamTeachingBecomingProgramBaseballSatisfactionComplicatedCoachingSoftwareMasteryFeedingResonanceTerrainNew BusinessBaseball TeamDeep SoulTeaching Writing Author:Atul Gawande
“Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.” TogetherSpiritForceLove IsTeamBasketballCoachingMentoringIgnite Author:Phil Jackson
“My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.” KnowsWayYearsFirstsJobsPayKnow HowTeamFootballGolfCoachesCoachingScoreMaryVansTournamentsWrecksAssistants Author:Lou Holtz
“While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book. And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here.” BookBigsKidsGamesBitsSportsTeamReaderSeasonsCompetitionCuriousCoachingCaptureEngineeringConventionalStaffContestsRoboticsGrippingCoaching Staff Author:L. Jon Wertheim