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  • Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.

  • I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

    Trying   Debt   Chess  
  • A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.

  • I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

    Mistake   Taken   Men  
  • I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

    Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.

  • A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

  • A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way.

    Mistake   People   Risk  
  • The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  • A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.

  • I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

  • It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

    Sports   Player   Hands  
  • When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.

    Athlete   Hockey   Nhl  
  • My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going to be a good coach.

  • There are a lot of things that make players really good coaches. Whether you've played in the NBA or not, there are certain things you have to master and be really good at. They just have to be gifted in these areas. You've got to be competent. Secondly, you've got to be able to communicate. You can have a picture in your mind on how to score but if you can't communicate it, if you can't teach it, what good is it? You've got to be brutally honest and be a man of strong character and then you've got to have class. They've got to respect you.

    "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
  • Dictators lead through fear; good coaches do not.

  • Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

    Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963
  • The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

  • A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

    Dick DeVenzio (2006). “There's Only One Way to Win: Lessons from a Legend: Modern Success Principles from an Old-School Coach”, p.83, BookPros, LLC
  • The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.

    Team   Order   Ideas  
  • I think my brother is good coach,because he's Jim. He's a good decision maker. He makes good judgments. He's got a vision. He's got a picture of what he wants it to look like. He's not worried about what other people think. He's not afraid to be himself. He's a good person and he cares about people. He wants them to do well so that they can shine, not for any other reason than that they can be their very best.

    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.

    Jobs   Media   Two  
    "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.
  • A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.

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

  • People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

  • It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

  • I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

    School   Thinking   Needs  
  • Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

    Men   Years   Trouble  
  • Start training yourself. You don't have to have been an elite lifter to be a good coach - I sure as hell wasn't. But you have to at least have been under the bar enough to know why wedon't look up at the bleeding ceiling when we squat!

  • Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

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