Coach's Playbook by Dave Larkin

Author:Dave Larkin [Larkin, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781665548144
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2022-02-28T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

FAVORITE QUOTES

“Failure to prepare certainly means preparing to fail.”

John Wooden, (former UCLA basketball coach)

“Most battles are won even before they are fought.”

General George Patton, WWII veteran

“Great games generally aren’t a by product of inspirational speeches. Usually, they’re by products of a great week of practice.”

Mike Leach, (former Texas Tech coach)

“Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.”

Tony LaRussa, (former Oakland A’s Manager)

“Do it right, do it hard or do it again.”

Bobby Bowden, (former FSU coach)

“There is no magic touch. Hard work, discipline and perseverance win more often than they lose.”

Lou Holtz, (former Notre Dame coach)

“Don’t have too many rules. Have as few as you possibly can, but enforce them.”

Bobby Bowden, (former FSU football coach)

“A coach needs to be the most demanding when his team is doing well, because there’s a human tendency to ease up when you’re winning. When things go poorly, especially when the effort is there, that’s when a team needs encouragement more than pressure from the coach.”

Tom Landry, (former Dallas Cowboys coach)

“It’s not the X’s and the O’s, it’s the Jimmies and the Joes.”

Jerry Kill, (former University of Minnesota coach)

“Coach a boy as if he were your own son.”

Eddie Robinson, (former Grambling coach)

“You win with good people. Character is just as important as ability.”

Don Shula, (former Miami Dolphins coach)

“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, (former UCLA basketball coach)

“Don’t let an undependable guy play just because he has great ability. He will let you down at a critical moment.”

Bobby Bowden, (former FSU football coach)

“It’s the nature of man to rise to greatness, if greatness is expected of him”

John Steinbeck, (Nobel Prize winning author)

“The key is not what you do, but who you are.”

Tony Dungy, (former Indianapolis Colts coach)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor and catch the trade-winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

“Discipline is not what you do to someone, discipline is what you do for someone.”

Lou Holtz, (former Notre Dame coach)

“Every man dies but not every man lives.”

The movie Braveheart

“I wasn’t called upon to succeed, I was called upon to try.”

Mother Teresa

“Society places value on objects, wealth, size of our house and number of cars in our garage. Society emphasizes things like resumes, trophies, awards and winning. People are often assessed in the world by the things they acquire and so our calendars are often empty of time with our family. But whom will you call to your bedside in the last hours of life…your banker or stockbroker or your loved ones?”

Tony Dungy, (former Indianapolis Colts coach)

“So many coaches and players think they’ll be satisfied if they win enough games or championships. However, the real secret of enjoying sports is to focus more on the process that the

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