Coaching Quotes - Page 3

I enjoy winning and very much dislike losing- but I did not allow either of them to obsess me. I was a silent loser, believing that if you won you said little, and if you lost you said even less

It's one of those things that it's everything you think it is, but then again you have to - you need time to really process the entire situation. You stand out on that platform afterwards and you're looking at the ballpark and the fans and the W flags everywhere, and truthfully I do think about everybody, I think about the fans and their parents and their grandparents and great-grandparents and everything that's been going on here for a while. So you think that - I think about my coaching staff.

A man is always better than he thinks.

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Practice to beat the best.

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.

To be successful, you have to expose yourself to different situations-different styles of play, different teammates, different coaching.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.

Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper.