Quotes by Coaches

Don't be so obsessed with stardom that you miss out on success
Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you think everything is someone else's fault, you'd be wrong. If you think everything is your fault, you're also wrong. Assigning blame can keep you stuck in the problem. Move on to solutions.
Sue Fitzmaurice
When you want to change anything it is best to simply be the change. Nothing will influence your thinking and your feelings as much as your body becoming the new you.It is simple really, we are accustomed to having our minds or our emotions tell our body how to behave. Sayings like: "I expect it will be a disaster," result in slumping body language. Feelings anxiety cause our body to tense up. But you can work your system the other way around and use your body to influence your thoughts and your feelings.Try this: sit or stand up straight and put a big smile on your face - now, how do you feel?
David Ferrers M Nlp
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Vic Braden
The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves kick it if it doesn't move kick it until it does.
Phil Woosnam
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
Tom Landry
I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.
Bill Russell
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
Steve Chandler
Fear is the most devastating of all human emotions. Man has no trouble like the paralyzing effects of fear.
Paul Parker
Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.
Vic Braden
The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
Lloyd Percival
Empower your possibility with the power of your promise.
Tony Curl
I'm often called in as a coach and speaker to motivate staff, teams, the public and leaders. The key to this is simple; you cannot truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are...what motivates them...?
Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
Suzette Vearnon
Love is a contact sport you were born to win.
Suzette R. Hinton
The importance of "small wins"When we believe that we can win it's amazing how positive we can become.So, to make positive change, plan small wins along the way.
Tony Curl
Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through a countless series of poses. Perfection of movement is achieved through the flow of perfectly rehearsed poses.
Nicholas Romanov
Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.
Bob Glover
Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.
Jeff Horowitz
The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
Multi-tasking is great in the kitchen when you are trying to time the chicken to be ready at the same time as the potatoes. But do not assume it is a great way to manage a workday.
Joanne Tombrakos
Truth flows from universal law, not personal views.
John Agno
History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill
Ron Mayes
It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The gift of your time and attention is love in action.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.
Thomas B. Dowd III
Build Yourself and He Will Come!
Gregg Michaelsen
Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.
Suzette R. Hinton
We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of obligation, thereby cheating those important to us of the purest expression of our love. We must say "no" to treating ourselves, our health, our needs as not as important as someone else's. We must say “no.
Suzette R. Hinton
If it took your authentic voice to get you there, it will take your authentic voice to keep you there. Your job is to keep listening.
Suzette R. Hinton
A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.
Tony Curl
The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to “do” The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different realms). Thus far your training has been largely if not entirely immersed in the relative domain. With Being, your training is stepping beyond this domain into the transcendent. Fundamentally, there is nothing you can “do” to “be.
Rob McNamara
Make yourself a slave to good habits
Dan John
Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free
Rasheed Ogunlaru
See and live life for the wonderful gift that it is ...acknowledging everyone's beauty, flaws, frailty, strength, gifts and possibilities. Honour and cherish it and above be loving and compassionate. Here is the birthplace of inner and worldly peace.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
Nigel Cumberland
It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.
Henry Kimsey-House
A man with new ideas is a madman, until his ideas triumph.
Marcelo Bielsa
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins
I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.
Mark Messier
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
Persistence to fight for what you want is what separates those who win and those who don't.
Tony Curl
Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It’s very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else’s idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great
Tony Curl
A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!
Tony Curl
Inner peace is the key to worldly harmony
Rasheed Ogunlaru
If you only do what you want to do, you won't get there.
David Ferrers
Who brings out the champion in you?Those that help you be the hero of your story, keep them close.
Tony Curl
There’s no better way to serve and nourish the magnificence in another person than to simply listen to them openheartedly and without judgment.
Henry Kimsey-House
Recovery is most often associated with some type of illness, addiction or mental health issue. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the struggle of getting back to where you were before the sound went out.
Suzette R. Hinton