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"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."
People
"Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching."
Coach
"Quality has to be caused, not controlled."
Quality
"The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going."
Attention
"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."
Quality
"If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow."
Change
"The great discoveries are usually obvious."
Obvious
"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically."
Career
"Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not."
Decision-Making
"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."
Change
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"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
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Personal Development
"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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Personal Development
"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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Personal Development
"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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Personal Development
"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
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Personal Development
"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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Personal Development
"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."
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Personal Development
"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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Personal Development
"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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Personal Development
"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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Personal Development
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