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If you want to have a great, united team on your hands, you might want to memorize some coaching quotes beforehand. Full of inspiration and positivity (with little to no cursing), these phrases accomplish several things in a span of just a few lines. They can inspire young players on the team to reach for the heights and motivate old ones to keep going and pushing.

Coaches often use motivational quotes to try to push the players to their maximum potential. In the heat of the game, with only a few minutes left, players might pull out a victory thanks to some inspiring phrases. A string of words aligned in the perfect combination can deliver a dose of positivity just good enough to reach that sweet victory.

If you are a team manager or about to coach some kids in a basketball game, read up on some good coach quotes. After all, coaches are the ones who push their teams to well-fought victories. 

Like you did in the recent post on leadership quotes, make sure to upvote coach quotes that gave you a motivation boost. On the other hand, if you have used some of them, share your stories in the comments down below.

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Being ourselves means sometimes having to find the courage to stand alone, totally alone." – Brené Brown

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from." – Bobby Knight

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons from failure." – Bill Gates

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." – Paul Brown

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others." – Don Shula

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Donkey boi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I blame the wealthy, the government, society, and existence in general.

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal." – Mike Ditka

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important." – Bobby Knight

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." – Pat Riley

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Champions behave like champions before they are champions." – Bill Walsh

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Donkey boi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's borderline... Could go either way, positive attitude or "Alpha" mentality.

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel." – Mike Krzyzewski

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be." – Jimmy Johnson

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way." – Greg Popovich

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Donkey boi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this another one of those 'America will use anything but the metric system' things?

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "I had to lift players' expectations. They should never give in. I said that to them all the time: "If you give in once, you'll give in twice." – Sir Alex Ferguson

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit." – Bear Bryant

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." – Red Auerbach

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out." – Chuck Noll

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable and comfort the troubled." – Ric Charlesworth

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners." – Joe Gibbs

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good." – Bear Bryant

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it." – Knute Rockne

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won." – Bill Bowerman

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"Our emphasis is on execution, not winning." – Pat Summitt

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"What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it." – Dean Smith

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling." – Bill Belichick

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"Discover your gift, develop your gift, and then give it away every day." – Don Meyer

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"Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to." – Bob Cousy

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"Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." – Henry Ford

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"The test of success is not what you do when you’re on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom." – General George Patton

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"To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness, and not a threat to your position or authority." – Henry Ford

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"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be." – Rosalynn Carter

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be." – Tom Landry

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you." – John Wooden

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Fear can be created quickly, trust can’t." – Ed Catmull

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"Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear." – John Madden

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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." – John Wooden

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them but by building a fire within." – Bob Nelson

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"You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly." – Colin Wright

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"In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow." – Carol Dweck

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "Coaching works because it’s all about you. When you connect with what you really want take action – magical things can happen." – Emma-Louise Elsey

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward." – Pep Guardiola

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"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. – John Madden

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90 Coaching Quotes That Ooze In Positive Feelings "What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It's the pursuit of excellence." – Ron O’Brien

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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." – John Wooden

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"In basketball — as in life — true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way." – Phil Jackson

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"You were born a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours." – Herb Brooks

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"The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and sacrifice personal glory for the common goal." – Dave DeBusschere

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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good." – Jerry West

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"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today." – Lou Holtz

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"Be led by your dreams. Not by your problems." – Roy Williams

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"There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them." – Tom Krause

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"If you are not in the arena getting your a*s kicked, I’m not interested in or open to your feedback." – Brené Brown

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"Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me." – Baal Shem Tov

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"A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness." – Elaine MacDonald

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"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." – George S. Halas

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"When I was a young coach I used to say, 'Treat everybody alike.' That’s bull. Treat everybody fairly." – Bear Bryant

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

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"Don’t ever ask a player to do something he doesn’t have the ability to do. He’ll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete." – Lou Holtz

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"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." –
Jimmy Johnson

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"Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect." – Vince Lombardi

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"Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

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"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts." – Dan Gable

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"The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vince Lombardi

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"Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up." – Jim Valvano

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"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." – Billie Jean King

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"You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation." – Homer Rice

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"There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens." – Tommy Lasorda

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"There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing." – Scotty Bowman

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"When you encourage others, you in the process are being encouraged because you’re making a commitment to that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference." – Zig Ziglar

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"Opportunities don’t knock, they whisper. So shut up and listen." – Thomas Leonard

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you." – Fred DeVito

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"In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, 'Oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses,” you say, “Wow, here’s a chance to grow.'" – Carol S. Dweck

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"Even while they teach, men learn." – Seneca (‘the Younger’)

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"In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power." – Ken Blanchard 

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"I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable." – John Russell

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"Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen." – Pete Carroll

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"Coaching isn't therapy. It's product development, with you as the product."

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"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves." – Steven Spielberg

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"A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'" – Joe Jonas

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"The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled." – Ric Charlesworth

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"It is not what the coach knows; it is what his players have learned."

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"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." – Michael Jordan

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"Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching." –
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"Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from 'I can’t do this’ to ‘I must do this.'" – Toni Sorensen

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"Coaching helps you to take responsibility for your life, let go of what others think and become your true self. It’s about you creating the life that you want – and deserve." – Emma-Louise Elsey

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." – Bobby Knight

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"I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done." – Tom Osborne

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"You don’t demand respect. You earn it." – Steve Seidler

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"If you’re going to have a team of role players, then you better have a team of players who truly understand their roles." – Steve Kerr

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"Do your job." – Bill Belichick

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