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Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.
Coaching has been my entire life.
But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.
After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels
The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
Coaching is a service. We serve our clients and have their well-being as the higher priority.
Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!
Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.
Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
Coaching isn't a great mystery. It's Just hard work, determination, and inspiration at the right moment.
That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.
Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.
Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Three rules for coaching: 1.) Surround yourself with people who can't live without football. 2.) Recognize winners. They come in all forms. 3.) Have a plan for everything.
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
Coaching is about helping young people have a chance
to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility
than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have
is being called 'Coach.'
It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
The coach is first of all a teacher.
I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's about picking the lock to get this group of players to play the best volleyball they're capable of playing for a long period of time.
I could have coached better.
A good Coach asks great questions to help you remove the obstacles in your mind and to get you back on track in life
Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.
Coaches need to have a vision.
For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.
A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.
Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
Having a social appetite for knowledge and wanting to develop and improve as a coach is important, but I believe in empowering people, particularly the other coaches that work with the team, giving them ownership and responsibility.
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people
The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other.
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions.
Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
Coaching doesn't start with X's and O's. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.
Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time ... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.
No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.
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.
As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.
I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.
In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in the coaching of athletics.
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.
Coaching really is an individual philosophy.
You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?
The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game.
In the end, it's about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me.
I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.
I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.
I am a coach who thinks always in the long term.
As with any new skill, attitude, style, or belief, adopting a coaching ethos requires commitment, practice, and some time before it flows naturally and its effectiveness is optimized.
If there is something a coach might wish to see changed in a player or team, the first place to check and see if it could not be done better is in yourself.
One does not become a master coach by accident.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning.
A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
Coaches win practices, players win games
My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.
A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
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.
How it works is you have an organization that provides you with players, and our job, as we've said all along, is just to coach 'em up.
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.
Coaching about girls
Coaches are sales people and change agents.
Professionals have coaches. Amateurs do not
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.
The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.
The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.
You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.
I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.
If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing
Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate ...
The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.
You can't coach guts and commitment.
A coach must sometimes see players with his heart, and hear them with his eyes.