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He mentored me with lessons, with actions, and with words
Don Yeager • A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
There's a great quote that Nick Saban said. He said that average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached, and great players want to be told the truth. Michael had a giant ego and a giant drive, but he would run up to the coach and tell me what I need to get better at.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
"I tried to conduct myself in such a way that I wanted my players to act. I think our youngsters, whether they be basketball players or our children at home, need models more than they need critics." John Wooden
“No school has more goodness and gentleness;
Matthew Van Natta • The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity
John Wooden is a legend. The coach of UCLA’s
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
Andy Stanley • Deep and Wide
When Bolles’s quote appeared in the newspaper the next day, Joe cut it out, pasted it in his scrapbook, and wrote next to it, “Coach said Cal had their necks out a foot. He is giving out pessimistic reports so that they will stick them out farther. Makes them easier to cut off.”
Daniel James Brown • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Nick Saban, possibly the greatest coach in the history of college football, tells his players to follow what he calls “the Process.”
Aubrey Marcus • Own the Day, Own Your Life
“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. And great players want to be told the truth.” – Nick Saben