Best Coaching Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you. — Cotton Fitzsimmons

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over. — George Halas

...and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we dedicate ourselves to removing the walls from within. — Dawn Kohler

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett

My coaching philosophy? Determine your players talents and give them every weapon to get the most from those talents. — Don Shula

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision. — Jeffrey Lurie

Be the author, not the reader, of your own life. — Paul Gibbons

Coaching really is an individual philosophy. — Mark Messier

Mentoring is passion for skills and knowledge-transfer to young people — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never cry for the same reason twice. — Stephen Richards

The development of the "We Believe" philosophy must be real and not cosmetic. Everyone must buy in and understand that it is not a motivational tool, but rather something very personal that should be lived and that all must believe in order for true success to be achieved. — George M. Gilbert

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them. — Bill Belichick

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up. — Paul Gibbons