Quotes tagged ‘Coaching’

“Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. An…”

— David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg, Coach Gary Gaines, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

“Coach Yoast: This isn't about me, I'm worried about my boys. Coach Boone: Well I'm not going to cut 'em and eat 'em. The best player will play, color won't matter. Coach Yoast: From the looks of our little situation we got us here, I think that's about all that he does. Coach Boone: Yeah, you're rig…”

— Gregory Allen Howard, Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington, imdb.com

“My ideal—probably every coach’s ideal—is when your best player is also your leader. But since Carmelo only played hard on one side of the ball, he made it plain he couldn’t lead the Nuggets, even though he said he wanted to. Coaching him meant working around his defense and compensating for his atti…”

— George Karl, si.com

“Youngsters of Little League can survive under-coaching a lot better than over-coaching.”

— Willie Mays, baseball-almanac.com

“So I think for Colin, for me how I would gauge it is, when I go back and watch the film like I'll do for our Sunday show, and I watch him, I'm going to be able to say, he made the throws that were there to be made. I believe NFL quarterbacks have to make the throws that are easy and are there to be…”

— Kurt Warner, ninersnation.com

“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her.”

— Mia Hamm, keepinspiring.me

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.”

— Chad Harbach, amazon.com

“One thing I’ve learned as a coach is that you can’t force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves.”

— Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty, amazon.com