Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast

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.  However, with the day that this episode is coming out being Christmas, I thought I would take a little detour from my discussion of covenants (although covenants play a huge part in the Christian faith!) and talk about quotes th...

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. In last week's episode, I started by explaining the whole concept of what we are trying to do with the establishment of Core Covenants and why we do it. My focus was on how we need to Intentionally Create our Culture . This...

The last 3 weeks, I  talked about quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger's new book, "Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life." While there are many more great concepts and ideas in that book, and I recommend you check it out, this week we move on to what I have been saying we would be doing for a while now. I have been telling you that I will be talking about quotes dealing with the Core Covena...

Last week, I continued talking about quotes from Arnold Schwarzenegger's new book, "Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life." As I told you the last couple of weeks, it is quite good, and it is filled with so many great concepts that I have been reading parts of it to my team. So, I thought I would do the same with you.  Today's episode focuses on the concept of recognizing that pain i...

Last week, I thought I was going to be talking about quotes that I will be using with my varsity boys' basketball team over the course of our season. The quotes will be based on the Core Covenants that our team has come up with that we feel will establish the identity that we are seeking for our team. However, I hadn't started working through our Core Covenants with our teams because we...

Last week we moved on from our series on Perfectionism and began a new journey. I thought I was going to be talking about quotes that I will be using with my varsity boys' basketball team over the course of our season. The quotes will be based on the Core Covenants that our team has come up with that we feel will establish the identity that we are seeking for our team. I told you that I would...

Today we move on from our series on Perfectionism and begin a new journey. While it won't be an actual series, over the next few episodes (maybe 4, but maybe more!), I will be talking about quotes that I will be using with my varsity boys' basketball team over the course of our season. As I type that, I realize that this could be a 4-month endeavor, rather than a 4-episode endeavor! What...

Today we wrap up our series on perfectionism with a few quotes that flip around the ideas that many people have of perfectionism. We zero in today on the concepts of worthiness, self-compassion, togetherness, growth & improvement when dealing with perfectionist tendencies in ourselves. Lots of great ideas in here today, especially for those of you who are perfectionists or who teach/coach/pare...

Today we continue with the  series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a couple of months ago. Today we have multiple quotes on perfectionism from various sources for you.  Actually, most of the quotes are about "imperfectionism" (I think I just made up a word!) and how being perfect is not all it's cracked up to be - at least according to some people! Leadership L...

Today we continue with the  series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a couple of months ago. Today's quote comes to us from Dr. Jen Douglas, a clinical psychologist who studies and works with people on the concept of perfection and perfectionism. I have been telling you that I would be doing a series of quotes by Dr. Jen, but I realized that since I had four quotes of hers...

Today we continue with the  series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a few weeks ago.  Today's quote comes from the former COO of Facebook/Meta, Sheryl Sandberg. It is a quote that you have probably heard before. Heck, I think I mentioned it in the first episode of this series on Perfectionism. However, I thought it was one of those quotes that are by an unknown, anonymous...

Today we continue with the  series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a few weeks ago.  Today's quotes form the final episode of three episode that make up a "Mini-Series" within the series. They are by Dr. Brene Brown from her book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. As you heard me say in each of...

Today we continue with the  series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a couple of weeks ago.  Today's quotes form the second of three episode that make up a "Mini-Series" within the series. They are by Dr. Brene Brown from her book, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. As you heard me say in the episo...

Today we continue with the new series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started a couple of weeks ago. This is a great topic for coaches because we all deal with "perfectionist athletes" at points in our careers, and for most of us we deal with them every season. The quotes that I will be discussing will get at the heart of perfectionism, why it can be crippling to performanc...

Today we continue with the new series of quotes on "Perfectionism" that I started last week. As I said last week, I'm sure I have touched on the concept of perfectionism at times in different episodes of the podcast, but I don't recall ever devoting any specific episodes to the idea of perfectionism. This is a great topic for coaches because we all deal with "perfectionist...

Today we start a new series of quotes on "Perfectionism." While I'm sure I have touched on the concept of perfectionism at times in different episodes of the podcast, I don't recall ever devoting any specific episodes to the idea of perfectionism, so I thought it would be a good topic to discuss. This is also a great topic for coaches because we all deal with "perfectionis...

Happy Labor Day! In honor of this holiday devoted to the American worker, I thought I would do a few quotes about the value of hard work. I have talked about some of these before, and a few of them are in my gift book for coaches to give to their graduating seniors called, "Inspiration for the Graduate." However, you will also hear a couple of quotes that are not in the book and that I h...

Long title to today's episode, huh? That's because I cover a few different quotes from an article in The Athletic   earlier this month about the coaching staff of the US Men's Basketball Team playing in the World Cup.  It was a great article about how unselfish each of these superstar coaches is, as they have all come together with the common goal of helping bring home a gold medal....

Today, we finish our series on significance with two quotes about being intentional and taking action in your pursuit of significance. I love these quotes as a wrap-up to the series, for they remind us that all the great ideas that we have talked about and heard about in this series on significance and making a difference in others lives in a positive, impactful way won't matter if you aren&a...

This was another week of needing to "Improvise, Adapt, & Overcome," but at least this episode is coming out on the normal day of Monday (although a little later than usual). You'll hear why in the episode. Today, we talk about two quotes on the pursuit of significance vs. success. This is a topic we have visited before, but these two quotes are so good that I felt we  needed to...

My apologies to those of you who are regular listeners of the podcast on Mondays. I had a few glitches this past weekend in preparation for some different trips, and I was so consumed with those that I never recorded my podcast episode! So, it comes out a day-and-a-half later than usual. While that is probably not a very big deal to most of you, it bothers me because I had never missed or been lat...

We follow up the last few week's ideas on significance in quotes by Oprah Winfrey, Michael Josephson, Ken Blanchard, Jackie Robinson, Nelson Mandela, Sean Michael Norris, and John Maxwell with three new quotes on significance. These quotes talk about a few concepts: where significance comes from, the impact that we have on others, even when we aren't necessarily thinking about it, and th...

We follow up the last few week's ideas on significance in quotes by Oprah Winfrey, Michael Josephson, Ken Blanchard, Jackie Robinson, and Nelson Mandela with two more quotes. These two are by Sean Michael Norris and, once again, John Maxwell. Each of these quotes talks about the importance of focusing on significance each day. The Norris quote has a unique approach to the concept, while the M...

We follow up the last couple of week's ideas on significance in quotes by Oprah Winfrey, Michael Josephson, and Ken Blanchard with two more quotes today—one by Jackie Robinson and one by Nelson Mandela. Each of these quotes gets at the heart of what a true life of significance deals with—the impact that one has on other people. When you consider the two men who said these quotes, they are eve...

We follow up last few week's ideas on significance in a quote by Oprah Winfrey with two quotes this week. One of the quotes is by Michael Josephson, the director of Character Counts, and the other quote is by author, leadership, and personal development guru, Ken Blanchard. Both quotes continue to expand on the concepts of success and significance that I have been discussing as I build the Sl...