Interesting quotes from coaches

[miamicuse]

I thought a thread from quotes from other coaches may be interesting.

Any quotes, inspiring ones, funny ones, of particular interest may be quotes by other coaches who might have criticized their players, positively or negatively, in public so we can compare.

I'll start with three.

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

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
– Don Shula

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
– Bill Walsh, American Football

 

[two3zone]

I thought a thread from quotes from other coaches may be interesting.

Any quotes, inspiring ones, funny ones, of particular interest may be quotes by other coaches who might have criticized their players, positively or negatively, in public so we can compare.

I'll start with three.

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

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
– Don Shula

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
– Bill Walsh, American Football

I need the respected heights of each bolded quote.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

JB is the consummate competitor, which I think is working against him here. With his rockiest season coinciding with coaching both of his sons, I think he is going to double down and be even more testy.

 

[TinyManInside]

I thought a thread from quotes from other coaches may be interesting.

Any quotes, inspiring ones, funny ones, of particular interest may be quotes by other coaches who might have criticized their players, positively or negatively, in public so we can compare.

I'll start with three.

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

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
– Don Shula

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
– Bill Walsh, American Football

I see what you did there.

 

[miamicuse]

I need the respected heights of each bolded quote.

Ok how about this?

“He looks like a woman’s coach sometimes. I guess he’s just trying to get into certain people’s heads, but it won’t work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can’t get in my head. He’s a crybaby.”

Shaq, 7'1" bare feet, on George Karl

 

[miamicuse]

“That boy don’t know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don’t know the meaning of a lot of words.”​

— Bobby Bowden

 

[Tango32]

"The ceiling is the roof"
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[althea]

"he’s so good that he can take his’n and beat your’n or he can take your’n and beat his’n"

 

[CuseFaninVT]

I thought a thread from quotes from other coaches may be interesting.

Any quotes, inspiring ones, funny ones, of particular interest may be quotes by other coaches who might have criticized their players, positively or negatively, in public so we can compare.

I'll start with three.

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

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
– Don Shula

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
– Bill Walsh, American Football

Bill Walsh and Marv Levy having a conversation must have been fun to watch. Two very intelligent leaders of men.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

“Coach, what do you think of your team’s execution”?
“I’m for it”. - John McKay, Tampa Bay

 

[NineOneSeven]

“That’s what she said”

-Michael Scott

 

[Briancuse]

I need the respected heights of each bolded quote.

All three were at least 5foot10. We're good.

 

[Briancuse]

“Coach, what do you think of your team’s execution”?
“I’m for it”. - John McKay, Tampa Bay

Greatest quote in sports history.

 

[kcsu]

" you fail all the time. But your not a failure until you start blaming someone else "
Bum Phillips

 

[OrlandoCuse]

Not a coach, but fits here

Praise by name, criticize by category.
— Warren Buffett

 

[JDubbin]

 

[two3zone]

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[Zelda Zonk]

I thought a thread from quotes from other coaches may be interesting.

Any quotes, inspiring ones, funny ones, of particular interest may be quotes by other coaches who might have criticized their players, positively or negatively, in public so we can compare.

I'll start with three.

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

“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
– Don Shula

“There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.”
– Bill Walsh, American Football

Those are all good. But, we don't know what these guys were doing and saying when not writing books or doing interviews. I'm sure JAB has some good quotes, as well.

But, yeah—point taken. Seems like these should be the objectives, and our coach is publicly working in a different direction.

 

[UpstateSM]

“No more than 15 seconds”

- Future Cuse Head Coach Rick Pitino

 

[Briancuse]

"Three or four plane crashes and we are in the playoffs" John Mckay

 

[cuseinseattle]

Anything else is premature. Premature anything isn't good.

-Jim Boeheim

 

[dollarbill44]

" you fail all the time. But your not a failure until you start blaming someone else "
Bum Phillips

This is a very astute and underrated quote.

 

[4evaOrange]

“I’m better than Brandon Reese.”



Bjorn Calderon - the best to Eva do it

 

[rhcuse]

Brandon Reese: “Who?”

 

[HOFCeluck]

Playoffs? Don't talk about—playoffs?! You kidding me? Playoffs?! I just hope we can win a game! Another game!

-Jim E. Mora