Quotes with coaches

  • As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
  • And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

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  • John Madden Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Bob Knight As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Pat Riley Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Herbert Kaufman Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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  • Bobby Bowden Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bud Grant I happened to be in a position in Superior where I could play three sports, and when I came to Minnesota, I had the understanding they would allow me to play three sports. Kids now don't have the same amount of time. You have coaches that think baseball is 10 months a year. Hockey is 11 or 12 months a year.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Barry Sanders It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson It's been a constant struggle with my athletic career to identify myself as a child of God and understand that His love is unconditional for us; it's not conditional like fans, or coaches, or even myself.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bill James The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bobby Bowden The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bill Parcells There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden There's a saying in my business that there are two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who haven't been fired yet. That's kind of like prostate cancer. Every man will have it if he lives long enough.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Bobby Orr You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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