Nick Saban💯
“Mediocre people don’t like high-achievers — & high-achievers don’t like mediocre people.”
“My goal for spring practice — get the right guys on the bus. Get them in the right seats & get the wrong guys off the bus.”
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@TheCrimsonWhite
Coach K on being Tired ⤵️
“When you’re tired what do you start thinking about? —> You.”
“Be as tough as your mothers - they show up all the time - we need to show up all the time.”
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@espn
Geno Auriemma 💯⤵️
“If you go to class & you do average work - you get a C - that’s why it’s called average. If you want a B - you have to do more work & if you want an A you have to do even more work. You have to give up stuff - you have to sacrifice.”
Dabo Swinney with some 🔥🔥🔥 Take 2 minutes & enjoy ⤵️
“The fun is in the winning. If it ain't fun to win then that's a sad state of affairs.”
“I want to be judged personally by how my boys turn out in life - judge me by that."
Bill Belichick on Constructive Criticism
“I don’t know how you can improve
unless you accept constructive
criticism. I don’t know how you can
get any better.”
Tom Izzo was asked about getting into it with Aaron Henry during the game........ his response ⤵️
"I don't know what kind of business you're in, but I tell ya what, if I was a head of a newspaper, and you didn't do your job, you'd be held accountable."
Gwinnett County Sports Hall of Fame inductee, David Saville, talks being “All In” to a Norcross high school football team ⤵️
“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”
Dabo Swinney on being “critical” as a coach
“You have to be critical - you have to rank people - it’s hard.”
“When you have adversity in your life & it doesn’t go your way - it can destroy you, it can define you, or it can develop you.”
Cleveland Browns interim head coach Gregg Williams gets it‼️
“The things I’ve learned through life is that - you have to be a life coach first, & then a football coach second.”
“I think some of the best coaches in the country are high school coaches”
PJ Fleck talks about Minnesota’s winning culture 💯
“Connectivity is everything for a team — You’re either a “team” or a “group” — You get to decide which one you’re going to be.”
“The hard part about being the standard... is your the standard.”
Kobe Bryant on Practice 🔊
“If you don’t struggle in practice,
you never are going to get better.”
“That’s the only way you get better,
is pushing yourself past exhaustion.”
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@Nike
Brad Stevens ⤵️
“I did a bad job. As a coach, if your team doesn’t find its best fit together - that’s on you. So, I’ll do a lot of deep dives on how I can be better.”
Coaching — Taking blame for tough losses, but already diving in on how to get better‼️
Ed Cooley ⤵️💯
“If you can’t be tough - that’s our culture. If you’re just gonna be out there being soft - you’re never gonna be at Providence. I don’t give a damn who you are. If you can’t play hard & sacrifice for your team - then you misewell transfer.”
Herm Edwards 🔊🔊🔊
“You can never cheat the game of football - there’s more preparation in this sport than any sport. You practice more than you play. This is a game where the practice, the preparation, is bigger than the game. And ya can’t cheat it.”
Gregg Popovich on 𝐃𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛
“If you’re a plumber & don’t do your job. You don’t get any work. I don’t think a plumber needs a pep talk. You’re a basketball player - you come ready... it’s your job.”
Bill Belichick on Constructive Criticism
“I don’t know how you can improve
unless you accept constructive
criticism. I don’t know how you can
get any better.”
Scott Frost 🗣🗣🗣
"Whether it's fair or not, whether people like it or not, there's a scoreboard in life, in football, in everything. We shouldn't run from that, we should embrace that."
Jimmy Johnson on Coaching ⤵️
“Treat a person as he is & he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were what he could be & should be - & then he will become what he could be & should be.”
KSU’s Coach Klieman on his core values ⤵️
“I look for Character first. I don’t care what star you are or any of that bs. I coached one of the best kids I have ever coached in my life named Carson Wentz - he had 0 stars. He had unbelievable character.”
Joe Maddon on building relationships with players
“I need to communicate with my guys. I need to be open with them - but they also need to hear the truth.”
“If I tell you the truth you may not like me for a week or 10 days, but if I lie to you, you’re going to hate me forever.”
Tony Bennett on Losing in the First Round in 2018 Tournament.
🗣️
"If You Learn to use it Right, (the adversity) It Will Buy You a Ticket To a Place You Could Not Have Gone Any Other Way"
#FinalFour
@UVAMensHoops
Mike Leach on recruiting services assigning ⭐️’s to high school athletes ⤵️
“I don’t recall ever calling any of those individuals & asking them what I should run on 3rd down - so I certainly don’t ask them who can play.”
Tom Izzo on Penn State suspending head baksetball coach Pat Chambers for a game for shoving a player:
“I think the world is to soft - to fragile. There’s too many people that analyze every single thing.”
Dabo Swinney on being the best YOU - you can be ⤵️
“I want every player to be the best version of themselves. When you’re all in - you’re committed to doing the best you can in everything that you do - being a person of excellence.”
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Frank Martin on Teaching ⤵️
“When you teach somebody - regardless of their age - that person realizes that you don’t care about the score. That you care about helping them grow.”
Nick Saban on being driven to be the best ⬇️
“There’s an old MLK sermon where he talks about that there’s only “one guy that I let shine my shoes, because of the pride and the performance of how he shined my shoes. I wouldn’t let anyone else shine them.”
Every Coach Must Watch! Knowing your Why: Why Do YOU Coach? Former NFL Player
@DerwinLGray
at
@THSCAcoaches
Association Leadership Summit.
#THSCA2017
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Pat Fitzgerald on Northwestern’s recruiting process 🔊
“An increasingly larger part of the evaluation of the prospect, for us, is evaluating the parents. It’s a big part of the evaluation. If the parents don’t fit, then we may punt on the player & not offer them a scholarship.”
John Harbaugh with 🔥🔥
“Every player on your team should feel like you like them - & even more - that you love them. You’re their dad. They deserve your love. If you can’t love them - then you either shouldn’t be their coach or they shouldn’t be on your team.”
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@Ravens
Tony Bennett 💯
In his left hand,
the UMBC ticket.
In his right hand,
the national championship ticket.
“If you learn to use adversity right, it will buy you a ticket to a place you couldn’t have gone any other way.”
Powerful stuff from Dabo Swinney talking about MLK ⤵️
“Love your neighbor, as you love yourself. We all live by that in this country, we wouldn’t have near the problems that we have.”
Bob Huggins on Basketball
“Basketball is kinda like your girlfriend - if you don’t pay attention to her, she’s probably going to drift off on you.”
“You gotta spend time with it. When you don’t do that - basketball gets mad - just like your girlfriend.”
Cuonzo Martin ⤵️
“You’ll win games - you’ll lose games. Sometimes losses bring me to my knees where I don’t want to get out of bed, but at the end of the day I have to do it for my family - for these guys - to show them this is what a man looks like.”
Tom Brady on what makes a good teammate
“The best teammates are the ones
I have to think about the least.
I don't want to expend my
mental energy on things
that aren't really my job.”
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@Patriots
Frank Martin calls it like he sees it 💯
“You’re going to have the sniffles when you go through life. Better get out of bed and go to work. If not, you’re going to end up on the unemployment line.”
🎥
@GamecockMBB
Colorado’s Mel Tucker on complimenting his players ⤵️
"A person can go two weeks on one compliment. When they do it wrong, we’ll point that out, but when they do it right, we’ll go nuts. That’s how you build people up as opposed to tearing them down."
1 What sacrifices am I willing to make to achieve my goals?
2 What talents & skills do I have to acquire?
3 Whom do I have to work with to accomplish it?
4 What problems am I going to have to overcome?
5 What kind of choices am I going to make between now & achieving my goal?
Kobe Bryant on Practice 💯
“If you don’t struggle in practice,
you never are going to get better.”
“That’s the only way you get better,
is pushing yourself past exhaustion.”
Minnesota’s PJ Fleck: “We have guys that have gone from 2.4 to 3.7 GPAs. It’s no coincidence that they’re also becoming really good football players.”
When you commit to being the best you can be — you improve in ever facet of your life 💯
Coach Cal on players holding each other accountable
“You got to do your job - if you’re not, I’m going to say something to you. If you’re too cool, don’t be in the game. It shouldn’t come from the coach. A team that’s empowered becomes that kind of team.”
Ray Lewis & Ed Reed on taking Notes
“There’s not one word if you haven’t heard it before, or if you’ve heard it a 1000 times, that you shouldn’t write down. That’s how you create Mastery.”
📝📝📝
@raylewis
@TwentyER
Mack Brown dropping Knowledge 💯
“Adversity is just an opportunity for a positive.”
“If you practice hard everyday at game speed — when you get to the game it shouldn’t matter.”
“Coaches shouldn’t coach differently on game day then they do everyday in practice.”
Will Muschamp on life being unfair
“10% of life is what happens to you, 90% is what you do about it — you got to respond in life — things are gonna go against you — that’s part of it — so what? — Now what?”
Nick Saban on being mentally prepared to compete ⤵️
“You really go out there to play to be the best player you can be - you don’t look for an external factor like who you’re playing against.”
“It’s really not about winning or losing - it’s about trying to be the best player.”
Dabo Swinney on the importance of chemistry & leadership
“The chemistry & leadership of your team is the two most underrated things in football.”
“You can’t just be talented. There’s a lot of talented teams out there that have underachieving seasons.”
Tony Bennett after advancing to the Final Four with a powerful quote that he heard from his father 🗣
“It doesn’t compare to faith, kids, family, grandkids - because I know what truly matters - it enables me too enjoy what seems too matter like this.”
It’s Bigger than 🏀‼️
Nick Nurse Coaching Career before
#NBAFinals
89–90 N. Iowa (asst)
90–91 Derby
91–93 Grand View
93–95 S. Dakota (asst)
95–97 Birmingham
98 Telindus
98–00 Manchester
00–01 London
01,05 Oklahoma Storm (asst)
01–06 Brighton
07–11Iowa Energy
11–13 Rio Grand Valley
13–18 Raptors (asst)
“We need to get some humility. Cool does not win. You got to be willing to do the uncomfortable things that go into winning.
Usually the team that is humble enough to do the things it takes, gets the win.”
💯🔊 —
@CoachMickCronin