Quotes on Coaching

The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Young people need models, not critics.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

When I was coaching I always considered myself a teacher. Teachers tend to follow the laws of learning better than coaches who do not have any teaching background. A coach is nothing more than a teacher. I used to encourage anyone who wanted to coach to get a degree in teaching so they could apply those principles to athletics.

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Forget the failures. Keep the lessons.