Quotes about Coaching

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.

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.

Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

Remember this. Bear Bryant retired at age 69, and he died 28 days after he stopped coaching. If you don't have something, and a purpose in your life, you're gonna die.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

Born to Win, "I Can," Coaching to Change Lives, Teaching to Change Lives, and Strategies for Success), which deal with this tremendous need