Quotes about Coaching

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

To perform at your best, you must become your own personal cheerleader. You must develop a routine of coaching yourself and encouraging yourself to play at the top of your game.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

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.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.