Youth Sports Quotes

I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.

Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

The principle is competing against yourself.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

One man cannot make a team.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

When you win, nothing hurts.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.