Coaching Quotes

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

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.

The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment.

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

Talent works, genius creates.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Wherever you're coaching or playing right now is the Big Time

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

The will is transformed by experience, not information.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.