Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

Today's episode is another where it is me discussing a quote I find inspirational and meaningful. This quote comes to us from Thomas J. Watson, the former CEO of IBM. His quote is a really good one for leaders to consider they idea that before they lead others, they must first be able to lead themselves. Support the show For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, che...

Today's episode is extremely special for me, and I think you will find it so, too. My guest is Bob Kuykendall.   Bob is an English teacher and wrestling coach at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Illinois.  However, what makes it such a special episode for me is that Bob has been my best friend in the world since I was 5 years old. As he says in the episode, when we were in college (a...

Today I discuss a quote that I actually wrote my most recent blog post about over on my SlamDunk Success   website. I heard former NFL quarterback Trent Dilfer say this quote (or a variation of it) on the sports talk radio show, "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd a couple of months ago. While Dilfer's statement was a variation of another quote, he used it in explaining a point he was mak...

Today is another episode where we get to hear from a guest coach. Our guest coach is Andy Affholter. I have known Andy since 2002 when I became the Athletic Director for the high school & middle school, along with being the Head Girls' Basketball Coach, in Granger, Washington in the Yakima Valley. Andy was teaching and coaching in our middle school, and we immediately hit it off. Our phil...

Today's episode is another episode of me talking on my own about a quote. Today's quote comes to us from Ken Horne. As you will hear in the short intro I added to start the episode, I am unsure of which of two different Ken Hornes the quote comes from. However, no matter which Ken said it, it is a great quote for any of you leaders out there who are trying to create a great team experien...

Today we get to hear from one of my coaching mentors, Bruce Brown of Proactive Coaching . I have had a few coaching mentors in my life. Like all coaches, I have had long-distance mentors who I have followed and learned from, like Coach K at Duke University. But as far as in-person coaching mentors, while I have coached with many great coaches, learned a ton from many of them, and feel they contrib...

Today's episode is an end-of-year wrap-up of all the quotes that we covered this year. In this episode, I go back over the entire library of 42 quotes that we discussed in our inaugural year of the podcast. For those of you who did not hear all of the quotes this year, this is a great chance for you to hear all of them, so you can decide which episodes you want to go back and listen to in ord...

Today's episode is another episode where it is just me discussing an impactful quote. This quote comes to us from Fran Tarkenton. (If you don't know who Fran Tarkenton is, check out the episode, as I talk a little bit about him and what he meant to me growing up in the 70s.) His quote is another one about leadership, which is a bit of a theme that we have been covering for the last few e...

Today's episode is a very special one for me. I get to talk to one of my former student-athletes from my first few years of coaching. Chris Mikrut has been a very successful girls' soccer coach at Crown Point High School in Crown Point, Indiana. I haven't spoken with Chris in about 25 years, so this was a lot of fun for me to reconnect with him. Chris talks about a quote that he sta...

Episode 38 is a quote that is a great follow-up to last week's discussion with Kathryn Geouge about her quote. If you heard our discussion, we talked about the importance of being a servant-leader who truly lives by the concept of serving others. (If you didn't hear that episode, make sure you listen to it!) Today's quote gets at the heart of that idea. It is a Japanese proverb that...

Great episode here with Kathryn Geouge, the head softball coach at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Kathryn gets at the heart of what it means to be a servant-leader in her quote by Albert Pine - "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." Oh my! I had never heard that quote before, yet it has now vaulted WAY up the list...

Today's episode is another departure episode from the usual. It is one where it is me alone. However, once again I am not talking about a single quote today. Rather I am reading a chapter of my new fiction book coming out later this week (November, 2020) called, Ultimate Team Player: Remington Reunites the Team. If you listened to episode 34, you heard me read Chapter 1. If you didn't he...

Today's episode is another in the interview format. Today is a special moment for me. I get to have a "full-circle" type of moment, as today's guest is Silas Counts, a former student-athlete who I taught and coached back in the 90s. Silas has been a teacher and coach for quite a few years, and he is now an administrator at an elementary school here in Montana. Like other guests...

Today's episode is a departure from the usual. It is one where it is me alone. However, I am not talking about a single quote today. Rather I am reading the first chapter of my new fiction book coming out later this month (November, 2020) called, Ultimate Team Player: Remington Reunites the Team.   If you listened to episode 32, you heard a quote from the book, so you know a bit about the boo...

Today we talk with Jud Damon, the Athletic Director at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. Jud discusses a quote that I have used with my teams since the mid-1980s when the movie it was in came out. It is such a powerful concept, and I think you will find it extremely helpful with your teams, your families, your jobs, and your life in general.  Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Unders...

We are back to the individual episode format where it is just me talking about a quote. And yes, you read that right - today's quote is from me. Following the lead of Alan Stein Jr. in last week's Episode 31, I decided to discuss a quote of my own this week. Actually, I didn't have any idea I was going to do this. But I am releasing my first fiction book ever next month, and right n...

In today's episode, we move back to the interview format. This one is a special treat for me, as I get to talk to a coach who I have followed online for many years. His name is Alan Stein, Jr. I first found Alan when he was a basketball skills trainer, and he was doing all kinds of videos for players and coaches to help improve their skills and performance. I used a variety of his strategies...

     Today we have another episode where it is just me talking about a quote that I found to be extremely helpful in my coaching. Today's quote is from a coach who I really liked and followed through the years, and anytime I could read something from him or see him on TV, I was all over it. The coach is Pat Riley. He was the basketball coach for the Los Angeles Lakers during the Magic Johnson...

Today we have another of our "Interview Format" episodes. Today's interview is with Cyndi Vaughn, a dance teacher and dance and drill coach at Kingwood Park High School in Kingwood, TX. Cyndi has a great quote that she talks about, one that I know I would have gotten around to talking about at some point on the podcast if Cyndi (or another coach) wouldn't have. The quote is by...

Today we have a quote from one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. He is known for a lot of things, but one is the number of quotes that have been attributed to him. Today's quote might end up being the shortest quote that we ever have on the podcast, but it is a classic case of good things coming in small packages. Or another metaphor might be that even though it's small, it pac...

Today we have our second "Interview Episode" where I interview another coach/leader about a quote that s/he found inspirational, motivational, or helpful in some way. Today's guest is Rob Miller from Proactive Coaching . I have known Rob for about 10 years, as I am also a speaker with Proactive Coaching. Rob's resume is varied, and you will hear a bit about it in the interview....

Today's quote comes to us from one of the great women's basketball coaches of all time, Pat Summitt. Heck, Pat Summitt is one of the great coaches of either gender and for any sport of all time. She also has numerous quotes that I have used through the years, and her book " The Definite Dozen" is a great book for leaders of any kind to read. Today's quote is in the Account...

Today we have a real treat. It is the first episode of the podcast where you get to hear someone else other than me! I am going to be mixing in episodes throughout our time together where I will be interviewing other coaches to hear some of their favorite quotes or quotes that were especially motivational or inspirational for them. We kick off this format with a coach who is a good friend of mine....

Last week our quote was from John Wooden, a man considered by many people to be the greatest college basketball coach ever. This week we hear from the guy who is probably the closest to Wooden in that regard, Mike Krzyzewski, or as he is often referred to, Coach K. Like Wooden, Coach K has a ton of great quotes. He has also written numerous books on leadership and team-building, and I highly recom...

Today's episode comes to us from the late, great college basketball coach, John Wooden. We could actually devote an entire podcast to the quotes of John Wooden and never run out of material to talk about. Today's quote is a short one, but it packs a powerful punch, and it is one I have used for years with my teams when talking about the concept of Confidence . The quote is simply, "...