Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

This is the latest episode of a series I started last month about great quotes from an outstanding book called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. You can also find it under the title, "Lead Any Team to Win." Last week, I talked about the first half of Chapter 4 - &...

This is the latest episode of a series I started last month about great quotes from an outstanding book called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. You can also find it under the title, "Lead Any Team to Win." Last week, I talked about, Chapter 3, "Self-Evaluati...

This is the fourth episode of a series I started three weeks ago about great quotes from an outstanding book called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. It is also called "Lead Any Team to Win." Last week, I talked about Chapter 2, "Managing Expectations: Trust...

This is the third episode of a new series I started two weeks ago about great quotes from an outstanding book called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. It is also called "Lead Any Team to Win." Last week, I talked about Chapter 1, "Channel Capacity: Why Less i...

This is the second episode of a new series I started last week about great quotes from an outstanding book called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. You are going to LOVE this series! I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. It is also called "Lead Any Team to Win."   Today we cover Chapter 1, "Chann...

This is the first episode of a new series I am starting today about great quotes from an outstanding book I just finished called "Organize Your Team Today," by Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow. You are going to LOVE this series! I learned so much from this book, and you will, too. I highly recommend you pick it up. It is also called "Lead Any Team to Win." Support the show For mor...

Today we wrap up the little series I have been doing on "Commitment" with 5 quotes and a shoutout to one of the players in our program. If you would like me to do a "Shoutout" or a "Spotlight" on someone on a future episode of the podcast, reach out to me at scott@slamdunksuccess.com and let me know the person's name and what they are doing that is showing such g...

We continue our discussion about the importance of commitment today with three quotes from three people who would know a thing or two about commitment. 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 information to help you on your road to becoming your be...

This week we continue talking about Commitment with a gret quote from Indy car racing legend Mario Andretti. Also, I give an extended shoutout to Olivia, one of the players I have been working with on her basketball game. You're going to love this episode! Leadership Lessons From The Great Books Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet)... Listen on: Ap...

I don't remember the first time I ever heard this quote, but it was one of those that stopped me in my tracks and got me thinking, trying to figure out exactly what it meant. I have used it ever since then as a great message for young people (and old people, too) to not get so caught up in comparing themselves to others, yet to use comparison as a means to drive yourself to become the best yo...

The catalyst for today's quote is the off-season that my team is currently in. As a basketball coach, I often tell players that basketball players are not made from November to March; they are made from March to November. (Maybe that's a quote I should talk about in the future!) Of course, what I'm talking about when I say that is that players must put in time in the off-season to b...

Today's quote comes to us from the Easter Sunday church service I went to yesterday. For those of you who aren't Christian or who are not people of faith, this is not a religion-focused episode or anything along the lines. I'm talking about a great quote that our Pastor, Shad Durgan, said in his sermon that can be applied to all of us in much more than just a religious context. He w...

Okay, we're done with the replays that we did the last few weeks. I hope you enjoyed those if you had not heard them before, and if you had heard them before, I hope you enjoyed them again! Today we have quotes that focus on your favorite thing in the world - YOU! At least, I hope you're your favorite thing in the world. You will hear 7 quotes about the power that YOU have over the direc...

As we have done for the last couple of weeks, today I am bringing you another replay of a popular episode. In fact, today's episode is THE MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODE out of all of the episodes Ihave done.  Today you will hear from my long-time dearest friend in the world, Coach Bob Kuykendall. Bob is an English teacher and Head Wrestling Coach at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Illinoi...

As I told you last week, over the next few weeks I am bringing you replays of popular episodes. I have some personal and professional matters that are taking up a lot of my time, and I am headed to Mexico on spring break this week, so I thought I would just let you listen to some of the more popular episodes of the show over these next few weeks. Today you will hear one of my absolute favorite epi...

Today, we are going to start a few weeks of replays of popular episodes. I have some personal and professional matters that are taking up a lot of my time, and I am headed to Mexico on spring break next week, so I thought I would just let you listen to some of the more popular episodes of the show for the next few weeks. Today you will hear the very first episode of the show. Its focus was on one...

This week I talk about a little topic called, "The Meanng of Life"! Yeah, no biggie. Just the biggest topic one could tackle, and I come at it straight on with hard-hitting, journalistic integrity that . . .  Okay, I don't do anything like that. But I do have four really good quotes for you that talk about meaning and purpose in life that I think you're going to really like. En...

This week's quote comes to us from an unlikely source. Well, I should say it's an unlikely source, only because I had not heard it until late last week. I was scrolling through my Twitter feed (Arrgghhh! I hate how Twitter sucks me in like that!), and I came across a video of the British actor, Michael Caine. I don't remember who posted the video; I thought it was Brett Ledbetter of...

Today we move on from our episodes on the Core Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team came up with for us to live by this year, and we move to some quotes the are very fitting for us moving into our off-season work to improve. This is a critical time for any team and any individual who wants to be an impactful contributor in the future.  You will hear five great quotes that will help...

Today we wrap up our episodes on the Core Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team has come up with for us to live by this year. Our first three covenants that I talked about are "Discipline," "Trust," and "Team-First Attitude." Our final covenant is "Respect."  I'm so glad my boys chose this as a covenant for a few reasons. One of the reaso...

Today we continue talking about the Core Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team has come up with for us to live by this year. Our first covenant that I talked about three weeks ago was "Discipline," and our second covenant that I talked about last week was "Trust . " This week we move to one of my all-time favorites - "Team-First Attitude." As a team-spo...

Today we continue talking about the Core Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team has come up with for us to live by this year. Our first covenant that I talked about two weeks ago was Discipline . Our second covenant that I talk about today is Trust . Trust is an essential ingredient for success for any team. If you don't have trust on a team, you're not going to be a team....

Holy cow! This is our 200th episode of the "Great Quotes for Coaches" podcast ! In celebration of that milestone, I take you on a little journey of some of the highlights of the podcast. I also have a variety of quotes about Quotes and about Gratitude. Thank you so much to all of you listeners for helping make the podcast so popular. Please tell more people about the podcast, so we can c...

I have told you for a while now that I will be talking about quotes dealing with the Core Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team has chosen for this season. This week we finally start talking about the specific Core Covenants that my team is working on this year. Our first covenant is Discipline . You will hear 7 quotes on discipline in this episode. For more information on Core Cove...

With last week's episode coming out on Christmas day, I took a little detour from my discussion of covenants, and I talked about quotes that deal with the concept of belief and how powerful our ability to believe in something can be. Well, with today's episode coming out on New Year's Day, I thought it would be fitting to  talk about something that I focus on every year at this time...