Rick Majerus Quotes

I know I'm a really good coach.

I'm not a very good coach.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.

Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.

I don't think I can coach.

Obviously, being in the league for so long, you do have something to offer as a coach.

Guardiola can get the best out of everyone and that's why he is what he is.

When you're a coach there's no age limit. It's the results that make you last.

People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.