Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

It's all about your Character & Integrity! This week, we start a 7-week series based on my book, "Senior Salute," which I wrote as a follow-up to my most popular book ever, "Inspiration for the Graduate." Both are gift books for coaches or parents to give to their senior athletes. "Inspiration for the Graduate" makes for a great graduation gift, and "Sen...

Hard work needs to be a given if you're going to have any chance at success. We come to the final episode of our 2nd week of episodes in the new format for the podcast, where I come to you three times each week, as opposed to just one time. This week, we have been dealing with the concept of Hard Work.  Today, I have four quotes for you, but there is a key concept in these quotes that is crit...

Hard work needs to be a given if you're going to have any chance at success. We are into the 2nd episode of our 2nd week of episodes in the new format for the podcast, where I come to you three times each week, as opposed to just one time. This week, we are dealing with the concept of Hard Work. I have four quotes for you today. Enjoy! Support the show For more information to help you on your...

We are into week 2 of the new format for the podcast, where I come to you three times each week, as opposed to just one time. Last week, we focused on the theme of Change, since I was changing up the show. This week, we move into the concept of Hard Work. I have three short, but powerful, quotes for you from some of the big names of the past. Enjoy! Support the show For more information to help yo...

If you want to grow and develop, you have to embrace change! Last week, I talked about changes coming to the episode. This week, they're here! Instead of coming to you once a week, episodes will be coming to you three times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays.  While the episodes will usually be a little shorter than in the past, they will still carry the same clout with powerful quot...

If you want to grow and develop, you have to embrace change! Last week, I talked about changes coming to the episode. This week, they're here! Instead of coming to you once a week, episodes will be coming to you three times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays.  While the episodes will usually be a little shorter than in the past, they will still carry the same clout with powerful quot...

If you want to grow and develop, you have to embrace change! Last week, I talked about changes coming to the episode. This week, they're here! Instead of coming to you once a week, there will be episodes coming to you three times a week - Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays.  While the episodes will usually be a little shorter than in the past, they will still carry the same clout with powerfu...

Change is on the horizon! Beginning next week, I will be releasing 3 episodes per week - one on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday. The episodes will be a little shorter in length (probably), but they will come to you more often.  My goal is to create episodes in the 5-10 minute range, cut down to one or two quotes per episode, and create more of a "short, but sweet" type of show. Yes, I wi...

If you're a coach or leader of any type of team, if you're not reading, you're not growing! This is the final episode of my "Leaders are Readers" series. You will hear 3 quotes and a powerful passage out of a book that will show you the impact on us if we read to gain different ideas, opinions, and perspectives as we navigate our role as leaders.  I hope you have enjoyed t...

If you're a coach or leader of any type of team, if you're not reading, you're not growing! This is episode 2 of my "Leaders are Readers" series. You will hear 4 powerful quotes that talk about why it's so important for leaders to become readers if they aren't already. For those of you who are not readers, DO NOT run away from these episodes! They are for you mor...

Today, I am starting a new series. I was not planning to do so. I was merely going to do the quote that you see as the title of the series, "Leaders are Readers." Then, as I did a little research on that quote, I found quite a few more quotes to help explain the importance and value of that quote and concept. The more quotes I found, the more I wanted to talk about them. And so, we will...

We leave our series on quotes coaches should NOT use and start back to the more conventional concepts of quotes we should use. However, today's episode is not about a specific "quote" like so many of the quotes I have spoken about for most of the 260 episodes before this. Rather, today I talk about two paragraphs in Dr. Brene Brown's book, Dare to Lead . I have talked about Bre...

We move into the ninth and FINAL episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today, we wrap up by covering two concepts that we have probably all dealt with in some way before: comments about summer/off-season involvement and what we say to our teams after contests, especially after we lose. Whoa! Those could be huge, Scott! That...

We move into the eighth episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today, we cover a concept that ALL of us, not just coaches, need to be aware of and try not to do when it comes to communicating: sending mixed messages. I have two different scenarios that I discuss in here where I have seen coaches make this mistake. I'm s...

We move into the seventh episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today, we cover one quote that I heard a coach say on another podcast that he said we should not use with our kids, and I thought, "Hey, I need to do that one in my series on quotes coaches should NOT use!" So here it is. The coach who said this is Jos...

Today, we move into the sixth episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today we cover some quotes that deal with the use of sarcasm and quotes that limit your people in any way. I wish I had heard something like this in my early years of coaching because, boy, did I ever use BOTH of these kinds of statements as a young coach....

Today, we move into the fifth episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today we cover some quotes that deal with conditioning and punishment elements of your practices. In the last couple of episodes, I talked about quotes that were dominated by the pronouns "I," "me," or "my." You will hear that...

Today, we move into the fourth episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today we continue to cover some quotes that start with or are dominated by the pronouns "I," "me," or "my." Last week, the quotes focused on the concept that, "It's not about YOU, coach!" This week, I focus on t...

Today we move into the third episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today we cover some quotes that start with or are dominated by the pronouns "I," "me," or "my." I guess if I had to come up with a theme for this episode, it would be another quote: "It's not about YOU, coach!"  H...

Today we move into the second episode of a series on quotes that coaches should NOT use in their own personal development or with their teams. Today we cover two quotes that we commonly use in coaching and in life, but we should really think twice about doing so.  As I say in the episode, if you have any quotes or concepts that YOU think we should not be using as coaches, please email me with them...

My apologies to you for missing last week. You'll hear my explanation of what happened that caused that on this episode, but the short version of it is I was out of town at my final AD meeting at the beginning of the week, and then I had ankle replacement surgery at the end of the week.  But now, I'm back and coming to you with the start of a new series on quotes that coaches and leaders...

Today's episode comes to you on Memorial Day, so I thought I would do some quotes on "Sacrifice" as a way to honor and recognize those people who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free and to help others in the world live freely, too. However, only one of the quotes is about that kind of sacrifice. The rest of them are great quotes for you, as leaders, to use with your tea...

Holy cow, it's episode #250! Now, that's a milestone. And so, what better way to celebrate a milestone like that than with quotes about Milestones?!  You're going to hear a few different quotes today about the importance of milestones, but also on what aspects of milestones people should focus on. There are multiple ideas out there on milestones, and I touch on a few that I think ar...

Today I get personal. Today's quote deals with my own life right now. I make a major announcement a little ways into the episode. It's an announcement that will have a fairly substantial impact on the podcast moving forward, as well as some other ways that I have come to you before. The quote that I discuss is perfect for the situation.  Let me know your thoughts on it and the major anno...

I was unaware until a while after the last episode, "Leadership is Language," was released that it cut off after only a few minutes. So sorry about that. Here is the full version of it. Enjoy! Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show For more infor...