Coaching Quotes to Motivate Your Team to The Next Level

Being a coach can be exciting, emotional and definitely a great memory. Here are some great coaching quotes that will shed a light on this inspiring career.

Coaching Quotes on Leadership

1. “I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you’re doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you’re trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.” ― Phil Jackson

2. “Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.” ― John Wooden

3. “Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.” ― Tom Landry

4. “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ― John Wooden

5. “My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” ― Robin S. Sharma

6. “To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.” ― Morgan Wootten

7. “You don’t demand respect, you earn it.” ― Steve Seidler

8. “To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you’re a part of them and they’re a part of you.” ― Bobby Knight

9. “The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill

10. “A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.”― Bobby Knight

11. “Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want more out of life.” ― Chicago Tribune

12. “Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?” ― Dennis E. Mannering and Wendy K. Mannering

13. “If we were supposed to talk more than we listen we would have two mouths and one ear.” ― Mark Twain

14. “Failure is never quite as frightening as regret.” ― Anonymous

15. “Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.” ― John Wooden

16. “Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.” ― Danny Meyer

17. “I didn’t get into coaching to make money. I got into this for the coaching and teaching part.” ― Dabo Swinney

18. “Coaching takes patience. I’m more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.” ― Kevin Garnett

19. “Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student-athletes and help them discover what they want.” ― Pat Summitt

20. “To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.” ― Stephen Curry

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Quotes about taking small steps towards action

It is better to take small steps cautiously than large steps haphazardly. Here are a few quotes on why the former is better than the latter.

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.” ~ Adam Braun

“In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.” ~ Susan Cooper

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead

“The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.” ~ Duane Elgin

“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” ~ Peter Marshall

“I don’t do great things. I do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa

“What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.” ~ Barack Obama

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