George Karl Quotes

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

Coaching is something I want to do.

I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

For me to be at my best, I need to do something I'm decent at, which is coach.

I never consider what I do as work. It has been fun. It's been rewarding and very fulfilling.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

I could have coached better.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

Work is much more fun than fun.

When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

You want to do good things, and once you've done a couple of good things in a row, you think 'Well gee, let's not mess this up.' But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.