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Coaching Quotes

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Leadership Characteristics – Top Ten List 1. Visionary 2. Integrity 3. Consistency 4. Coach /Facilitator 5. Accessibility 6. Flexibility 7. Courage 8. Over-Communicates 9. Positive Role Model 10. Inspirational

COACH: C = Conduct one-on-one meetings regularly O = Offer feedback and assistance A = Avoid overlooking the “middle stars” C = Create an Everyone’s a Coach environment H = Help others succeed COACH: C = Commitment O = Over learning A = Audible-Ready (flexibility) C = Consistency H = Honesty based (walk your talk)

– “Everyone’s a Coach” by Don Shula and Ken Blanchard

When I was coaching, the one thought that I would try to get across to my players was that everything I do each day, everything I say, I must first think what effect it will have on everyone concerned.

– Frank Layden

What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

– Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

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

Three things I’d ever say to a team to help hold them together: If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it.

– Paul “Bear” Bryant

There’s nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t pay attention to the day-to-day details.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

– Robert Half

The term “span of control” no longer makes sense… What we’re looking for is a span of support wherein managers understand that they are to help, coach and create learning, not to control.

– Ralph Stayer

The strength of the team is each individual member…the strength of each member is the team.

– Phil Jackson

The role of a coach is to create a relationship with people and groups where they continuously expand people’s capacity to produce the results they truly desire.

– Robert Hargrove

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

– Casey Stengel

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for a player to break.

– John Madden

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says “I”; The leader says “WE”. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, “GO”; the leader says “Let’s GO!”

– H. Gordon Selfridge

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

– Orlando A. Battista

Success is never final.

– Bill Parcells

Never criticize until the person is convinced of your unconditional confidence in their abilities.

– John Robinson

Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.

– Coach Dean Smith

If, as a coach, you devote all your energies to your present players, it is true that, for the present, you can win. However, if you spend no time on recruiting, you will eventually lose.

Feedback is information about the past, delivered in the present, to impact the future.

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

– Bruce Coslet

Every day, try to help someone who can’t reciprocate your kindness.

– Coach John Wooden

Don’t sweat the small stuff.

– Kevin Gilbride

Don’t rate potential over performance.

Dont make them in your image. Dont even try. My assistants dont look alike, think alike, or have the same personalities. And I sure dont want them thinking the way I do. You dont strive for sameness, you strive for balance.

– Bear Bryant

Coaching isn’t an addition to a leader’s job, it’s an integral part of it.

– George S. Odiorne

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

– John Whitmore

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

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

– John Madden