A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Interpretation
A good coach is open to learning from others, regardless of their status.
This quote emphasizes the importance of humility and continuous learning in leadership, particularly in coaching. A successful coach recognizes that knowledge can come from various sources and that asking questions is a vital part of growth and improvement, both for themselves and their team.
In practice
In a coaching seminar, this quote could be used to inspire new coaches to adopt a mindset of inquiry.
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'
Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.
People want national championship banners. People want to talk about Indiana being competitive. How do we get there? We don't get there with milk and cookies.
When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.
If you're in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what's going on around you.
One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.
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