Player To Coach Quotes by Pat Riley, Knute Rockne, John Wooden, Mike Ditka, Duffy Daugherty, Vince Lombardi and many others.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
