Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

After taking a few weeks off and playing replays of our most popular episodes, we're back with the first episode of Season 4. We kick off this new season with a quote from former NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe talking about his career with Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. I heard this quote last week while listening to the podcast "Beyond the Xs & Os" with Trent Dilfer...

As you have heard on the last few episodes, I am taking a break from recording new episodes of the podcast over the course of about 5 weeks during this holiday season and into January. However, you will still get to hear episodes, as I am releasing replays of some of our most popular episodes over the first 90 episodes. Today, you will hear the #1 most downloaded episode of the show, Episode 46. I...

As you heard on the last few episodes, I am taking a break from recording new episodes of the podcast over the course of about 5 weeks during this holiday season and into January. However, you will still get to hear episodes, as I am releasing replays of some of our most popular episodes over the first 90 episodes. The last few weeks you heard episodes dealing with the concept of success. Three we...

As you heard on the last few episodes, I am taking a break from recording new episodes of the podcast over the course of about 5 weeks during this holiday season and into January. However, you will still get to hear episodes, as I am releasing replays of some of our most popular episodes over the first 90 episodes. Two weeks ago, you heard the replay of Episode 1 in which I discussed the famous qu...

As you heard on the last couple of shows, I will be taking a break from recording new episodes of the podcast over the course of about 5 weeks during the 2021 holiday season and into January. However, you will still get to hear episodes, as I am releasing replays of some of our most popular episodes over the first 90 episodes. Last week you heard the replay of Episode 1 of the podcast in which I d...

As you heard on last week's show, I will be taking a break from recording new episodes of the podcast over the course of about 5 weeks during the 2021 holiday season and into January. However, you will still get to hear episodes. I am releasing replays of some of our most popular episodes over the first 90 episodes. So today we start with the very first episode that kicked things off back in...

Today's episode is the last new episode I will release for a little while. As we are into the holiday season, I have decided that over the course of the next month, I am going to take a break from recording new episodes of the show. Instead, after today's episode, the next 4 episodes will be reruns of the four most downloaded shows of the first 90 that we have recorded. This will allow m...

Last week I talked about a quote from Seneca , a Roman philosopher and writer. It was about the importance of having role models and people who we look up to and measure ourselves against. I also said that this week I would be doing three more quotes that I felt would be a good follow-up to that quote. Well, here we are. The first quote is from German author, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; the second...

A little over a month ago, I did a video over on the SlamDunk Success YouTube Channel about Stoicism . I had listened to a book about the topic on my Chirp app, and it was intriguing. It also provided a variety of ideas for me to talk about on video, in blog posts, and here on the podcast. Today's quote comes from Lucius Seneca , a Roman philosopher and writer who was one of the early voices...

Today we are back to the interview format for the show. I interview veteran college football coach and current 6-12 principal of the River Valley Community School District in Correctionville, Iowa, Adam Bisenius . Like Coach Dave Maynard two weeks ago in Episode 86, Adam first heard this quote as a young boy when his father said it to a team he was coaching. It stuck with Adam ever since those day...

Two weeks ago in episode 85 of the podcast, you heard me briefly reference Tom Brady as the guy that Trent Dilfer was talking about when I first heard him say the quote I discussed on that episode, "How you do small things is how you do all things." Today, we go straight to Brady for the quote I discuss. The actual quote is new to me, for I first heard it from Brady on a podcast he was i...

Today we are back to the interview format for the show. I interview veteran coach of a variety of sports, Dave Maynard . Coach Dave talks about a great quote that he used to hear his father say when he was coaching and that I first heard college basketball coach, Rick Pitino say - "Practice doesn't make perfect—perfect practice makes perfect." We have a great discussion on the quote...

This might be the most important quote I've ever done on the show. Okay, that's probably a stretch and a bit of hyperbole, but I'm not sure that it is. It's also not meant to discredit all the great quotes that I have talked about or that our guests have talked about. It's just that this quote is all about the discipline to do everything in your life the right way so as to...

Today I interview veteran youth hockey coach, Karl Norton . Karl talks about a great quote by sports psychologist, Dr. Jerry Lynch - "Your influence is never neutral." We have a great discussion on the quote, and we explore a variety of topics that it led to, the biggie being the value of a "games-approach" to practice vs. a "drills-approach." I really enjoyed the dis...

This week we continue Season 3 with another episode where I will be talking about an impactful quote. This is  Part 2 of a 2-part episode that I began last week. Today's quote and last week's quote are quite similar to one another, but their focus is just a bit different, so I thought I would talk about each of them over these two weeks.  This week's quote carries on the concept of...

We continue Season 3 of the "Great Quotes for Coaches" podcast with another episode where I will be talking about an impactful quote. This is actually Part 1 of a 2-part episode. Today's quote and next week's quote are quite similar to one another, but their focus is just a bit different, so I thought I would talk about each of them over the next two weeks.  Today's quote...

It's been a long time, but we are now back to the interview format again for the podcast! I'm excited to start having other coaches and leaders back on the show for you. Today you are in for a real treat! Doshia Woods is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at the University of Denver . She is doing all kinds of great things creating a culture of character and excellence in her program...

Season 3 of the "Great Quotes for Coaches" podcast opens up with a new episode about a single impactful quote. This one is from Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Kurt Warner. The quote came from his Hall of Fame induction speech, and it spoke to a concept that many of us deal with in some fashion from time-to-time. It is also a great lesson for us to teach the young people in our lives. Howev...

Today we finish up the series we have done for the last few months discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks and all of the mortar elements that holds the blocks together.  We have reached The Apex of the Pyramid - Success! We come full circle today. We started the series out discussing Wooden's defin...

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and today we will finish the  mortar elements that hold the blocks together.  The first nine mortar elements were Ambition, Sincerity, Adaptability, Honesty, Resourcefulness, & Reliability, Fight, & Integrity, &a...

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and we are up to the final two mortar elements that hold the blocks together.  Wooden put the final two mortar elements at the top because he felt they were the most important ones and that you couldn't have Competi...

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and we are into what Wooden called the mortar that holds the blocks together. We have covered the first seven mortar elements, Ambition, Sincerity, Adaptability, Honesty, Resourcefulness, & Reliability, & Fight....

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and we are now into what Wooden called the Mortar that holds the blocks together. We covered the first six mortar elements already, Ambition, Sincerity, Adaptability, Honesty, and Resourcefulness, & Reliability . Tod...

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and we are now into what Wooden called the Mortar that holds the blocks together. We covered the first five mortar elements already, Ambition, Sincerity, Adaptability, Honesty, and Resourcefulness . Today we move to Mort...

Today we continue the series discussing John Wooden's "Pyramid of Success" and a variety of quotes in support of it. We have finished all the blocks of the Pyramid, and we are now into what Wooden called the Mortar that holds the blocks together. We covered the first four mortar elements already, Ambition, Sincerity, Adaptability, and Honesty . Today we move to Mortar Element #5 - R...