Top 200 Coaching Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “A good process produces good results.”

— Nick Saban

52. “It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

— John Wooden

53. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

54. “Personal power is the ability to take action.”

— Tony Robbins

55. “We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won’t ever be perfect – but in the process we will achieve greatness.”

— Vince Lombardi

56. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

57. “Life will pay any price you ask of it.”

— Tony Robbins

58. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”

— Lou Holtz

59. “Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.”

— Tony Robbins

60. “Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.”

— Tony Robbins

61. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”

— Tony Robbins

62. “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

63. “One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.”

— John C. Maxwell

64. “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.”

— John Wooden

65. “There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.”

— Nick Saban

66. “Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.”

— John C. Maxwell

67. “If you can accept losing, you can’t win.”

— Vince Lombardi

68. “My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.”

— Tony Robbins

69. “Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.”

— Phil Jackson

70. “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”

— Tony Robbins

71. “Most people know what to do, but they don’t do what they know – because they haven’t found their inner drive. Their passion.”

— Tony Robbins

72. “The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.”

— John Wooden

73. “The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.”

— Tony Robbins

74. “There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

75. “Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality.”

— Tony Robbins

76. “Success without happiness is failure.”

— Tony Robbins

77. “Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.”

— Pat Riley

78. “Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.”

— John Wooden

79. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”

— Pat Riley

80. “Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

— Tony Robbins

82. “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

— Vince Lombardi

83. “If you can’t you must, and if you must you can.”

— Tony Robbins

84. “I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.”

— Lou Holtz

85. “The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It’s time to change. It’s time to live life at a new level.”

— Tony Robbins

86. “At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.”

— Tony Robbins

87. “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what’s most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.”

— Tony Robbins

88. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”

— Tony Robbins

89. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

— John Wooden

90. “The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.”

— Vince Lombardi

91. “You carry on no matter what the obstacles are. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”

— Vince Lombardi

92. “Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it’s not the best thing for you.”

— Bill Belichick

93. “Success leaves clues. Go figure out what someone who was successful did, and model it. Improve it, but learn their steps. They have knowledge.”

— Tony Robbins

94. “A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that’s teamwork.”

— John Wooden

95. “Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”

— Tony Robbins

96. “Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.”

— John Wooden

97. “I’m on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.”

— Tony Robbins

98. “It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.”

— John Wooden

99. “Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi

100. “There’s no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.”

— Vince Lombardi