44 Coaching quotes that'll help you reach your goals. Here are the best coaching quotes to read from famous people and organizations that will inspire you positively. A coach is someone experienced or knowledgeable who does the training, and coaching is a manner of teaching used to unlock a person's potential for development to maximize their performance. May these inspirational coach quotes give you more insights about coaching, help you achieve the greatness hidden in you, and provide guidance to stay on the right track to reach the top of your goals in life. Share these great coach quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. - Vince Lombardi
2. To excel at the highest level, or any level you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching. - Stephen Curry
3. The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled. - Ric Charlesworth
4. I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities. - Bob Nardelli
5. I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. - Phil Jackson
6. You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. - Mike Krzyzewski
7. Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to. – Bob Cousy
8. Coaching works because it's all about you. When you connect with what you want and why, take action, and magical things can happen. - Emma-Louise Elsey
9. With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything. - Reese Witherspoon
10. A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life. - John Wooden
11. If you wish your life were different, do your life differently. - Terence Houlihan
12. One of the most exciting things about coaching is the buzz you get when you push out of your comfort zone, come up with a plan and put it into action! Life takes on a whole new meaning as you re-create your life the way you want it. - Emma-Louise Elsey
13. Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. - Pete Carroll
14. Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. - Barbara de Angelis
15. You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation. - Homer Rice
16. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and sacrifice personal glory for the common goal. - Dave DeBusschere
17. When you encourage others, you in the process are being encouraged because you’re making a commitment to that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference. - Zig Ziglar
18. Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life. - Chicago Tribune
19. The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. - Bobby Knight
20. I think of a coach like a personal trainer who pushes me to lift more weights. - St. Paul Pioneer Press
21. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. - Jimmy Johnson
22. Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self-worth, focus on your goals, and get there fast. - The London Daily Telegraph
23. In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow. - Carol Dweck
24. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. - Pat Riley
25. Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is more often helping them to learn rather than teaching them. - John Whitmore
26. Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won. - Bill Bowerman
27. We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes, understanding that failures are not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington
28. What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. - Dean Smith
29. It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons from failure. - Bill Gates
30. Champions behave like champions before they are champions. - Bill Walsh
31. Discover your gift, develop your gift, and then give it away every day. - Don Meyer
32. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions result in successes. - Catherine Pulsifer
33. Coaching offers the chance to visualize your highest goals and stay on track to achieve them. - Central NY Business Journal
34. You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. - Jerry West
35. The power of coaching is this - you are expected to give people the path to find answers, not the answers. - Tom Mahalo
36. People don't only use a coach when there is a problem with their technique; they understand that no matter how good their technique is, there is always room for improvement. - John Perry
37. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way. - Greg Popovich
38. I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual. - John Russell
39. Coaching is a unique process of human development, one that works to change a person's life for the better and help them achieve a number of specific objectives. - Ian Berry
40. That's what coaching is all about, learning how to change and grow. - Management Today
41. Your coach will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer figure. Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge. - Craig Wilson
42. You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson
43. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths. - Sausalito
44. Coaching is about helping clients unlock the treasure-chest of their lives, worth bearing in mind then that diamonds are made from coal under pressure, and it's the grit in the oyster which creates the pearls. - Sarah Durrant
1. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. - Vince Lombardi
2. To excel at the highest level, or any level you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching. - Stephen Curry
3. The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled. - Ric Charlesworth
4. I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities. - Bob Nardelli
5. I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. - Phil Jackson
6. You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel. - Mike Krzyzewski
7. Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to. – Bob Cousy
8. Coaching works because it's all about you. When you connect with what you want and why, take action, and magical things can happen. - Emma-Louise Elsey
9. With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything. - Reese Witherspoon
10. A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life. - John Wooden
11. If you wish your life were different, do your life differently. - Terence Houlihan
12. One of the most exciting things about coaching is the buzz you get when you push out of your comfort zone, come up with a plan and put it into action! Life takes on a whole new meaning as you re-create your life the way you want it. - Emma-Louise Elsey
13. Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen. - Pete Carroll
14. Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. - Barbara de Angelis
15. You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation. - Homer Rice
16. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and sacrifice personal glory for the common goal. - Dave DeBusschere
17. When you encourage others, you in the process are being encouraged because you’re making a commitment to that person’s life. Encouragement really does make a difference. - Zig Ziglar
18. Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life. - Chicago Tribune
19. The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. - Bobby Knight
20. I think of a coach like a personal trainer who pushes me to lift more weights. - St. Paul Pioneer Press
21. Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. - Jimmy Johnson
22. Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self-worth, focus on your goals, and get there fast. - The London Daily Telegraph
23. In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow. - Carol Dweck
24. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. - Pat Riley
25. Coaching is unlocking people’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is more often helping them to learn rather than teaching them. - John Whitmore
26. Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won. - Bill Bowerman
27. We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes, understanding that failures are not the opposite of success, it’s part of success. - Arianna Huffington
28. What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. - Dean Smith
29. It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons from failure. - Bill Gates
30. Champions behave like champions before they are champions. - Bill Walsh
31. Discover your gift, develop your gift, and then give it away every day. - Don Meyer
32. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions result in successes. - Catherine Pulsifer
33. Coaching offers the chance to visualize your highest goals and stay on track to achieve them. - Central NY Business Journal
34. You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. - Jerry West
35. The power of coaching is this - you are expected to give people the path to find answers, not the answers. - Tom Mahalo
36. People don't only use a coach when there is a problem with their technique; they understand that no matter how good their technique is, there is always room for improvement. - John Perry
37. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn’t go our way. - Greg Popovich
38. I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual. - John Russell
39. Coaching is a unique process of human development, one that works to change a person's life for the better and help them achieve a number of specific objectives. - Ian Berry
40. That's what coaching is all about, learning how to change and grow. - Management Today
41. Your coach will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer figure. Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge. - Craig Wilson
42. You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson
43. As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths. - Sausalito
44. Coaching is about helping clients unlock the treasure-chest of their lives, worth bearing in mind then that diamonds are made from coal under pressure, and it's the grit in the oyster which creates the pearls. - Sarah Durrant