If you want to have a great, united team on your hands, you might want to memorize some coaching quotes beforehand. Full of inspiration and positivity (with little to no cursing), these phrases accomplish several things in a span of just a few lines. They can inspire young players on the team to reach for the heights and motivate old ones to keep going and pushing.
Coaches often use motivational quotes to try to push the players to their maximum potential. In the heat of the game, with only a few minutes left, players might pull out a victory thanks to some inspiring phrases. A string of words aligned in the perfect combination can deliver a dose of positivity just good enough to reach that sweet victory.
If you are a team manager or about to coach some kids in a basketball game, read up on some good coach quotes. After all, coaches are the ones who push their teams to well-fought victories.
Like you did in the recent post on leadership quotes, make sure to upvote coach quotes that gave you a motivation boost. On the other hand, if you have used some of them, share your stories in the comments down below.
#1
"Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone." – Brené Brown
Brené Brown
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#2
"A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from." – Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight
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#3
"It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons from failure." – Bill Gates
Bill Gates
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#4
"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." – Paul Brown
Paul Brown
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#5
"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." – Don Shula
Don Shula
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#6
"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." – Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka
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#7
"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi
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#8
"The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." – Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight
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#9
"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." – Pat Riley
Pat Riley
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#10
"Champions behave like champions before they are champions." – Bill Walsh
Bill Walsh
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#11
"You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel." – Mike Krzyzewski
Mike Krzyzewski
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#12
"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be." – Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
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#13
"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way." – Greg Popovich
Greg Popovich
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#14
"I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice." – Sir Alex Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson
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#15
"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit." – Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant
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#16
"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." – Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach
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#17
"If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out." – Chuck Noll
Chuck Noll
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#18
"The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled." – Ric Charlesworth
Ric Charlesworth
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#19
"Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners." – Joe Gibbs
Joe Gibbs
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#20
"Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good." – Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant
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