45 Coaching Quotes

What is an effective coach? These coaching quotes will give you answers. A coach can be described as a mentor, a teacher, a leader. A good coach can bring success to the workplace by being positive and ensuring everyone is working towards the same goals.

“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
Action |

Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills. Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You
Trust |

Coaches are aware of how to ignite passion and motivate people. They have an energy that is contagious and know exactly how to get their team excited. Brian Cagneey, Coaching
Motivational Quotes |

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” Tom Landry
Leadership |

Good human-relations skills have the ability to change people from managing others to leading others. John Rampey
Inspirational Quotes |

I realized that life had much more to offer than I had anticipated and decided to help others in their human journey. Thus, I become a trainer and a coach with passion for transformation. Ann Betz, Coaching the Spirit
Passion |

People don’t only use a coach when there is a problem with their technique; they understand that no matter how good their technique is, there is always room for improvement. John Perry, Sport Psychology
Positive |

As coaches, we equip people to be in touch with their best selves. Clyde Lowstuter, 35 Truths
Encouraging |

So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way. Stacy Feiner, Talent Mindset
Work |

The best coaches know what the end result looks like, whether it’s an offensive play, a defensive play, a defensive coverage, or just some idea of the organization.
Vince Lombardi Quotes |

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. Pat Conroy, My Losing Season
Inspirational Sayings |

Everything in coaching hinges on listening because what we are listening for affects where we are speaking from and unfolds how we are being with and for each other. Marilyn Atkinson; Rae Chois, Step By Step Coaching
Communication |

What I learned is that if a coach lacks sufficient persistence, he will be unable to complete the critical task of finding growth opportunities out of adversity. Seth Davis, Getting to Us
Persistence |

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden
Famous Quotes |

When it comes to getting the best out of life – whether in your own life or from your team, there is no doubt that good coaching can play a pivotal role. Getting it right is about learning how to motivate yourself and others in a way that works. It means listening to yourself and others rather than just speaking at them. The good coach knows that they may not have all the answers. Steve Gold, Coaching & Leadership
Motivational Poems |

As a life design coach, I am passionate about changing lives . . . I’ve learned through my own self-discovery work that sharing authentically is the best way to make a real difference in others’ lives. Julie Reisler, Get a PhD in YOU
Making A Difference |

Coaching ....works to change a person's life for the better .... Ian Berry
Coaching is a unique process of human development, one that works to change a person’s life for the better and help him/her achieve a number of specific objectives. Ian Berry, Coaching
Achievement |

Now, coaching is basically like what it is, it is someone that you have that is working with another person to help the other person’s goal. Randy Wayne, Coaching
Helping Others |

The power of coaching is this – you are expected to give people the path to find answers, not the answers. Tom Mahalo, Coaching: Coaching For Success To Unlock Answers Using Powerful Questions And Achieving Your Life Goals
Questioning |

“Successful coaches are visionaries. They have a picture of success set in their minds.” Gavin McGinnis, Coaching: 10 Coaching Skills
Vision |

An evolutionary coach needs to instill five qualities in their clients to support them on the journey to full self-realisation – adaptability, emergent learning, the ability to bond, the ability to cooperate and the ability to manage complexity. Richard Barrett, Evolutionary Coaching
Poems about Life |

“I played catcher on the baseball team – a leadership position. But during those years that I was busy being a leader at my high school, I never thought about what it meant to be a leader. What’s more, no adult ever mentored, taught, or coached me in the practice and principles of leadership.” Pat Williams, Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders
Children |

A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life. John Wooden, former UCLA basketball coach
Encouraging Poems |

Life is constantly bringing us challenges and opportunities. When we have the courage to step up to the challenges and seize the opportunities we move forward. As a coach, you can help others make this kind of progress. Chad Hall; Bill Copper; Kathryn McElveen, Faith Coaching
Courage |

“Coaches in the office do not teach accountants how to balance ledger books, and they do not aim to teach secretaries how to use letter heads – no. Rather, they have a way of beginning a sort of informal conversation between them and the employees, where they get to appreciate the prevailing challenges.” I. Madison, Coaching: Powerful Coaching Questions
Appreciation |

“A good coach passes on information quickly. They do not hold back information that affects my job.” Byron and Catherine Pulsifer
Good |

“As their coach, your job is to set the bar high, inspire them to reach this bar, encourage them, and most of all, guide them in the best possible manner and in the most supportive environment.” John Popovich, Coaching Executing 10 Key Coaching Strategies That Will Motivate And Inspire Your Team
Words of Encouragement |

“In a coaching role, you ask the questions and rely more on your staff, who become the experts, to provide the information.” Byron and Catherine Pulsifer
Leadership vs Management |

“Coaching is 90% attitude and 10% technique.” Author Unknown
Attitude |

Coaches and the people they coach know that for the future to be different, we need to change the way we do things in the present…. More often, changes involve shifts in attitudes, thinking, perceptions, and behavior. Gary Collins, Christian Coaching, Second Edition: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality
Future |

“The actual awareness that the person opposite you is an entire world and isn’t lacking anything, and that you yourself are an entire world, allows you to coach him and to think about him in a positive way, from a place of reality and abundance.” Benny Gal, The Secret of Jewish Coaching
Positive Thinking |

“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.” John Madden
Listening |

“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
Problem |

Team coaches can help teams to improve how they manage their collective emotional well-being and learn how to moderate their responses to success and setbacks. Peter Hawkins, Leadership Team Coaching
Success |

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

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Teacher |

“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
Challenge |

“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” Ara Parasheghian
Sports Quotes |

“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 and Catherine Pulsifer
Change |

“People will exceed targets they set themselves.” Gordon Dryden
Goals |

“The test of a good coach is that when they leave, others will carry on successfully.” Author Unknown
Successful |

“Coaching might have stayed in the realm of sports and entertainment had it not moved into the corporate world a few decades ago. Faced with the unsettling impact of galloping change, rapid technological advances, and tidal waves of information glut, business leaders began to see that no one person could keep abreast of everything.” Gary Collins, Christian Coaching, Second Edition: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality
Potential |

The manager needs to have a coaching mindset, looking for opportunities to help others learn…. The coach and coachee relationship must be one that rests on a foundation of trust that can allow the coaching dialogue to take place. James M. Hunt, The Coaching Manager
Opportunity |

“I realized that life had much more to offer than I had anticipated and decided to help others in their human journey. Thus, I become a trainer and a coach with passion for transformation.” Ann Betz, Coaching the Spirit
Quotes about Life |

“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.” Bob Nelson
Effort |

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