Coaching Success Quotes

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

Why is Barry Switzer not in the Hall of Fame? I have no idea. He's done everything humanly possible to be in.

You look at Matt LaFleur and where he's been. It seems like successful quarterback play follows him.

I am confident that I am a young coach that continues to improve and continues to get better and have been able to find success in the regular season and haven't been able to find it in two completely different circumstances in the playoffs.

A rookie coach must be supported by a very strong structure and not get burned.

I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.

When you speak of the Pat Rileys, the Phil Jacksons, you have to speak of Don Nelson and the success that he has had in the game.

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it.

It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them.

To take over a bottom club is the best thing that can happen to you as a coach. There's a significantly higher chance that you can turn things around than failing.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

I've been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don't get any.

Phil Handy played for me in England and has obviously risen to stardom in his area of what he does.

When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

You don't have to sacrifice your family to be a great coach.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

In the end what matters is, do you develop your team, do you win games and do you graduate your players.

I'm definitely not a perfect coach and it's impossible to make everyone satisfied.