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CoachsDiscover insights from voices who guide, challenge, and champion others. This collection gathers quotes by coaches from many arenas such as sports, education, performance, and personal development, highlighting leadership, teamwork, resilience, and the pursuit of excellence. Whether you're seeking a spark before practice, perspective during a setback, or wisdom to share with a team, these words offer grounded encouragement and practical clarity. Explore themes of preparation, accountability, creativity, and care, and hear how coaches translate experience into brief lessons that motivate progress and sustain belief.
"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon"
John Madden, Coach
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"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you"
Woody Hayes, Coach
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"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about"
George Allen, Sr., Coach
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"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off"
Abe Lemons, Coach
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"Never mistake activity for achievement"
John Wooden, Coach
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"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"
John Madden, Coach
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"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
John Wooden, Coach
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"Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one"
Bobby Knight, Coach
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"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport"
Duffy Daugherty, Coach
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"If you can't accept losing, you can't win"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it"
Lou Holtz, Coach
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"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be"
Jimmy Johnson, Coach
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"You're never a loser until you quit trying"
Mike Ditka, Coach
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"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"Fatigue makes cowards of us all"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"Great moments are born from great oppurtunities"
Herb Brooks, Coach
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"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team"
John Wooden, Coach
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"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then"
John Wooden, Coach
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"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others"
Don Shula, Coach
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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game"
Earl Weaver, Coach
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"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds"
Larry Bird, Coach
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"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything"
Vince Lombardi, Coach
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it"
Lou Holtz, Coach
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"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"
John Heisman, Coach
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"One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good"
Abe Lemons, Coach
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