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A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.
Sep 17, 2025
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.
I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy.
Great coaches are visionaries. Great coaches instill, nurture, and encourage vision, then model and motivate surrender to it.
Nobody thought I would be a great coach.
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.
Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.
Most of what I learned about baseball came from great coaches, beginning with my father, then Bob [Buchelle], when I`d made it into the seated row of Little League in [Dorchester], then Dan Burke, [John Balfe], the great Henry Lane.
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
I would like to accept this recognition on behalf of all the staff members that that I’ve been associated with; all of the office people behind the scenes who never get credit and make this game so great along with the great coaches and players.
The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.