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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The Most Nail-Biting Action Novels of 2018

When an action book successfully conjures a scene, and gets you hanging on the edge of your seat, palms sweating, desperate to know what happens next, there really is nothing like it. Any author that can write excellent action scenes should be celebrated.

If you can’t get enough of action literature, check out the most exciting and enthralling 2018 novels in this genre.

Hunt Them Down by Simon Gervais

Pierce Hunt is a DEA and Special Agent, eager to get back to work after 6 months’ suspension. He becomes near-obsessed with a case involving the Mexican drug cartel, but when things go awry and the cartel kidnap his teenage daughter, Hunt has just 72 hours to foil their plot and save her: he must team up with an ex-lover and confront his violent past as a trained killer in order to overcome the situation.

The President is Missing by James Patterson

This political action thriller is co-written by Bill Clinton, and has an impressive record as No.1 bestseller in the US across multiple publications. The story is about President Jonathan Lincoln Duncan, who must navigate treacherous ground when he uncovers a plot to overthrow the government with a cyber-attack. Together with the Secret Service, he must work to overcome cybergeddon, with plenty of exciting twists along the way.

Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci

Another gripping read from revered author David Baldacci, this novel tells the story of FBI special agent, Atlee Pine, whose dark and difficult past has made her one of the best criminal-catchers in US, and there’s a new case that needs her attention. Based in the rural West, Pine begins investigating a dead mule and its missing rider, and discovers that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Gripping, unpredictable and thoroughly entertaining, this is a great page-turner for action and thriller fans alike.

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