Quotes about Coaching

So much in football is touching, feeling, walking through, writing it on boards, drawing Xs and Os. And all those are the best for me.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

Developing coaches (leaders of leaders) may be the single most overlooked yet vital task in spreading a missional movement.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.

Born to Win, "I Can," Coaching to Change Lives, Teaching to Change Lives, and Strategies for Success), which deal with this tremendous need

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit.

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.

I'd say handling people is the most important thing you can do as a coach. I've found every time I've gotten into trouble with a player, it's because I wasn't talking to him enough.