Daily Thought - Competition

"When you get away from Mommy and Daddy, it's a tough world out there.  The people that work in corporations and do a really good job usually have corner offices and trips to Cancun and bonuses.  If you don't do a good job, you don't.  I think a lot of times kids aren't taught that."  Urban Meyer

Daily Thought - Buzz Williams

- "Old people talk about the past."
- "Young people talke about the future."
- "Successful people worry about the now."
Buzz Williams - Marquette Basketball

Daily Thought - Champions

"Champions behave like champions before they're champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners."  Bill Walsh

Daily Thought - Love Tough

"I believe in tough love.  But for tough love to work, love must come first.  We must love tough to bring out the best in those we lead."  Jon Gordon

Daily Thought - Simplify

“Simplify your teaching and communication. This will reduce confusion. An athlete that is not decisive and confident in what he is to do will be hesitant and a hesitant athlete will fail.” 

Del Harris - NBA Coach

Daily Thought - Gary Patterson

"There is no such thing as everyone wins and gets a prize.  I think you need to teach them there is a winner and there is a loser in life.  That's the way it is and you have to learn how to win and the discipline of doing things the right way.  I think the sooner the kids learn that the better chance they have of being successful."  TCU - GARY PATTERSON

Daily Thought - Chip Kelly

"I think playing fast is a fundamental.” 

Chip Kelly

 

Daily Thought - Tom Landry

“I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game."  Tom Landry

Daily Thought - Bob Knight

"Coaching is a great balance between demand and patience. The coaches who are demanding -- constantly demanding -- are not particularly good coaches. The coaches who are extremely patient are not particularly good coaches. There's a balance between the two that I think is really important. Patience allows for development; demand brings about development at a rate that you have to have.“  Bob Knight

Daily Thought - Roy Williams

During practices I want to show my team everything that they an possibly be exposed to in a game and what to do against it.  I try no to do anything that doesn’t correlate directly to our next opponent.  I kid Jerod Haase all the time about how he and his former high school basketball coach used to run basketball camps and start out with a figure-eight drill.  I told him, “Why would you practice the figure eight?  That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.  You don’t do that in a game, do you?”
Roy  Williams, Hard Work

Daily Thought - Jack Welch

“You are not a leader to win a popularity contest - you are a leader to lead.”

 Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric

Daily Thought - Tom Moore

Someone asked the Colts great Offensive Coordinator Tom Moore if he was going to install any new plays for the playoffs.  He said, Hell No, if he such good plays for the playoffs he would have installed them during training camp.

Daily Thought - Kevin Eastman

Kevin Eastman, assistant coach Boston Celtics
"If your not beating your competition you better be learning from them.  What are they doing that you should/could be doing?"

Daily Thought - Geno Auriemma

“It’s about doing it in a way that it can’t be done any better.  That is the goal every day.”  Geno Auriemma

Daily Thought - Geno Auriemma

“I’m constantly striving for perfection.  When we are up 25 points and Barbara Turner gets the ball and without looking where she’s going charges into a player and gets called for an offensive foul, I’m livid.  You know why?  If she does that in a two-point game, it’s going to cost us.  ‘Well,’ you say, ‘it isn’t a two-point game. It’s a 25-point game.’  The young kids have a hard time with it, too.  When I start screaming at them, they look at me, and think, ‘Why is he killing me?  We’re up by 30.’  They don’t understand I’m coaching the Final Four two years from now.  I’m preparing them to stay mentally tough at all times, regardless of the circumstances.”  Geno Auriemma

Daily Thought - Don Shula

"The important thing is not what Don Shula knows or what any of my assistant coaches know.  The important thing is that we can transmit to the people that we're responsible for.  That's what coaching is....the ability to transmit information."  Don Shula

Daily Thought - Ara Parseghian

Former University of Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian
"As coaches, we represent one of the few remaining organized systems for demanding discipline of young men.  Their education will not be complete if it does not include the discipline and generosity that can come from being a team member, if it does not include an awareness of responsibility to others.  We are "people coaches," not just "football coaches."

Daily Thought - Jim Wilson

Boy's lacrosse coach Jim Wilson
Loomis Chaffee School (Connecticut)
"I constantly stress process over outcome.  In other words, don't worry about the exam.  Just do your homework."

Daily Thought - Matt Painter

MARCH MADNESS - Purdue Head Coach Matt Painter

"I've never coached someone who had no discipline off the court who had it on the court."

Daily Thought - Lou Holtz

"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing, and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team."  Lou Holtz