Quotes on Coaching

To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. _x000D_ People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. _x000D_ Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.

When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.