Coaching and Leadership Quotations
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[Page 2]Although you wouldn't always recognize it in today's game, the role of coaching in basketball is all too important. There is more to playing this great game than just playing.
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."
-- Harry S. Truman"You can't lead by memo.....leadership is a contact sport....eyeball-to-eyeball, on the field with the sound of the contest in your ears. Most everything else is noise from the grandstand."
-- Ron GorntoHave I taught for lo, these many years, or have I only taught one year many times?
"Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation."
-- George Raveling"Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."
-- Peter Drucker"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."
-- John Madden"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."
-- Ara Parasheghian“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.”
-- Bob Nelson“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”
-- W. A. Nance"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group."
-- Russell H. Ewing"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
-- James Crook"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude;
be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully;
be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but not timid;
be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly."
-- Jim Rohn"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
-- Sam Walton"No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement."
-- Greg Henry Quinn"Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.'
-- Al Maguire"R.E.P.S. - Repetition Elevates Personal Skills."
-- Conor Gillen"Successful leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different."
-- Reed Markham"I praise loudly; I blame softly."
-- Queen Catherine II"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
-- Kenneth Blanchard“I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.”
-- Paul "Bear" Bryant"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
-- Lee Iacocca"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
-- Ernest Hemingway"You've got to put the players first. If you are in this business for any other reason, you are making a mistake."
-- Leon Barmore"In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young men than in the coaching of athletics."
-- Clair Bee"My way of trying to motivate my players is to tell them how good they can be; to build them up, instead of tearing them down."
-- Lou Carnesecca"Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it."
-- Marv Harshman"Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see."
-- Jack Ramsay"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
-- Andrew Carnegie"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-- George S. Patton"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
-- fortune cookie"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-- Dwight D. EisenhowerCommunicate in a way as to leave as little room for misunderstanding as possible.
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
-- Peter Drucker"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?"
-- Katharine Graham"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
-- Pericles"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."
-- Ronald Reagan"Strategy is something anyone can learn. But not all coaches take the time to understand a man's personality."
-- Arnold "Red" Auerbach"I believe the objective of coaching is winning with integrity."
-- Pete Carril"Coaches come and go. Records come and go. But if you touch peoples' lives, they remember you."
-- Clarence "Big House" GainesCheck out the other quotation categories:
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