Quotes on Sports Coach

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

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

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

One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

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

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.