Coaching Quotes
A collection of positive coaching quotes and sayings with leadership, life, business, and personal application. Many of the quotes here are from people who have been successful in the role of coach. Coaching is a line of work that can be very rewarding - to help people grow and develop makes being a coach a very fulfilling job Let these coaching phrases and expressions inspire and motivate you as you work with people.to what they don't want to hear."
John Madden
"Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask
a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer."
Phil Dixon
"Make no mistake,
as you change your leadership style to one of a coach you will face challenges. There will be times when you question why am I doing this. However, you must at all times keep the long term benefits of being a coach at the forefront of your mind."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Challenges in Adopting a Coaching Style
"People will exceed targets they set themselves."
Gordon Dryden
"Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique."
Author Unknown
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be
rather than what they are."
Ara Parasheghian
"A good coach passes on information quickly. They do not hold back information that affects my job."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from People's Expectations of a Coach
“The test of a good coach is that when they leave,
others will carry on successfully.”
Author Unknown
“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them,
but by building a fire within.”
Bob Nelson
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more quotes about coaching:
"With all the information available today, the manager can no longer have all the answers. Whereas, in a coaching role, you are not expected to have all the answers. In a coaching role, you ask the questions and rely on your staff, who become the experts, to provide the information."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer. from Why All This Talk of Coaching Rather Than Managing?
"The highest of distinctions is service to others."
King George VI
"Coaching is a profession of love. You can't coach people unless you love them. Eddie Robinson
"My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. Don Shula
"Overcoaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. Dean Smith
"I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable."
John Russell
"The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Moving to a coach from a manager is a huge change. Your ability to change your style and how you work will help build your adaption to change skills."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from More Benefits To Being A Coach
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."
Ara Parasheghian
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano, Basketball Coach
“I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.”
Scotty Bowman, Hockey Coach
"Coaching can lead you to all sorts of new places and situations."
Kevin Mansell
"In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message."
Ashley Montague
"Coaching is an action, not a title and actions result in successes!"
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from To Manage or To Coach?
“The fewer rules a coach has,
the few there are for a player to break.”
John Madden, Football Coach
"Coaching is a conversation, a dialogue, whereby the coach and the individual interact in a dynamic exchange to achieve goals, enhance performance and move the individual forward to greater success."
Zeus and Skiffington
"The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from What Does a Coach Do?
"Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change."
Ivy Business Journal
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish, and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."
Lee Iococca
“I won’t accept anything less than the
best a player’s capable of doing,
and he has the right to expect the
best that I can do for him and the team!"
Lou Holtz, Football Coach
"One common thought Managers have is that they will lose their power if they take on a coaching role. What they don’t realize, is that they end up with more power by being a coach rather than a manager."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from What Are the Benefits to Me?
"The best coaches really care about people. They have a sincere interest in people."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from What Are People's Expectations of a Coach?
"Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren't sure how to do it? Here's how to jump start your new life today ... Hire a personal coach."
Modern Maturity
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
Arnold Toynbee
"At times, we all become overwhelmed. An effective coach, however, has to be able to help people see the end goal, to take one step at a time, rather than being overwhelmed by the issues."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Common Traits of a Coach
"But in the changing environment we are in, as a coach it is important to realize that my biggest customer is the people I am coaching."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from As a Coach, Who is Your Customer?
"Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life."
Chicago Tribune
“Winning is only half of it.
Having fun is the other half.”
Bum Phillips,Football Coach
"The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization's valuable resources."
Harvard Business Review
"To manage or to coach?
People will manage the work. By attempting to manage people you are limiting their potential. A manager is a title,
it does not guarantee success.Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes!"
Catherine Pulsifer
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