Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast
215 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago -The Great Quotes for Coaches Podcast is for coaches, teachers, and leaders of all types of teams looking to use quotes to make their leadership inspirational, motivational, and impactful. Each short episode discusses quotes that they can use with their teams, classes, or organizations to create cultures of character and excellence.
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Teddy Roosevelt - Comparison
April 15, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBI 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 you that you can become. For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, check us...
Commitment
April 08, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBThe 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 becoming better players. But we also talk about the idea that you don't just "put in time." You need to make s...
True Greatness
April 01, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBToday'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 was talking about what true greatness is and where you find it. You will see how fitting it is for those of us w...
It's All About YOU!
March 25, 2024 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBOkay, 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 direction of your life. You're going to love these! For more information to help you on your road to becoming...
Replay of Episode 46 - Coach Bob Kuykendall Interview
March 18, 2024 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBAs 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, Illinois. He and I taught and coached together there right out of college for eleven years. Then I moved to...
Replay of Episode 31 - Alan Stein Jr. Interview
March 11, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBAs 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 episodes. It was episode 31, which was my interview with Alan Stein, Jr. If you don't know who Ala...
Replay of Episode 1 - Success is a Journey
March 04, 2024 22:00 - 9 minutes - 6.81 MBToday, 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 of my favorite quotes throughout my teaching and coaching career. It is also under ten minutes ...
The Meaning of Life!
February 26, 2024 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBThis 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. Enjoy! For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, check us out at SlamDunkSuccess.com or e...
Michael Caine - Use the Difficulty
February 19, 2024 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBThis 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 "What Drives Winning," but I can't find the video anywhere on their site, so I'm not sure where it came from. ...
Moving Into the Off-Season
February 12, 2024 15:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBToday 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 you as you move into any time that you are working on improvement for your future. For more inform...
Core Covenants 4 - Respect
February 05, 2024 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBToday 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 reasons I'm so glad is a selfish one—I have never really worked on the theme of Respect with my teams before, nor have I ever written or spoken on it, ...
Core Covenants 3 - Team-First Attitude
January 29, 2024 15:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBToday 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-sport coach—basketball, soccer, football—for the last 40 years, I have preached the value of a team-first attitude to thousands of kids...
Core Covenants 2 - Trust
January 22, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBToday 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. That is one of the reasons my boys wanted it as one of our covenants. I have a variety of quotes for you in tod...
Episode 200 - Wow! Quotes & Gratitude
January 15, 2024 20:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBHoly 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 continue to spread the words of inspiration and impact of all of these great quotes to more people. For mo...
Core Covenants 1 - Discipline
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBI 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 Covenants and establishing them with your team, I highly recommend you check out Bruce Brown's booklet ...
Goals & Goal-Setting
January 01, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBWith 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—Goals & Goal-setting. I have been a big believer (the focus of last week's episode!) in the power of setting ...
Believe
December 25, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBI 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 that deal with the concept of belief and how powerful our ability to believe in something can be. So ...
Covenants
December 18, 2023 08:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBI 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 week we start to talk about a key to how we intentionally create our culture—by establishing and living by...
Intentionally Create Your Culture
December 11, 2023 08:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBThe 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 Covenants that my varsity boys' basketball team has chosen for this season. In this week's episode, I start by expl...
Arnold 3 - Pain is Temporary
December 04, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBLast 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 is something that is part of growth, and that most things worthwhile in our development are going to have moments o...
Arnold 2 - Reps, Reps, Reps
November 27, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBLast 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 hadn't finished picking our teams as of last Monday. I thought we might start our Core Covenants last we...
Arnold 1 - Work Your Butt Off
November 20, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBLast 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 be telling you this week what our covenants are, and that I would begin with a quote or a few quotes...
Arnold - Work Your Butt Off 1
November 20, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBLast 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 be telling you this week what our covenants are, and that I would begin with a quote or a few quotes...
The Man in the Arena
November 13, 2023 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBToday 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 I plan on doing is talking about the quotes I will be talking about with my team over the season. The qu...
Perfectionism 9 - Growth through Self-Compassion
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBToday 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/parent/lead perfectionists. Help them (or yourselves) see that the goal should not be perfection—the go...
Perfectionism 8 - Never Satisfied
October 30, 2023 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBToday 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! For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, check us out at SlamDunkSuccess.com or email me at scott@slamd...
Perfectionism 7 - Dr. Jen
October 23, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBToday 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 I wanted to discuss, I could do them all in one episode. So that's what you get today - 4 quotes by Dr. Jen....
Perfectionism 6 - Sandberg - Better than Perfect
October 16, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBToday 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 source. But when I Googled the quote, Sheryl Sandberg popped up as the person this quote is most often attrib...
Perfectionism 5 - Brene Brown - Appreciating Our Cracks & Imperfections
October 09, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBToday 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 the last three episodes, I HIGHLY recommend you get this book! It has vaulted onto my list of Top 5 or Top 10 books that...
Perfectionism 4 - Brene Brown - Self-Destructive & Addictive
October 02, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBToday 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 episode numerous times, I HIGHLY recommend you get this book! I finished it this morning, and it has vaulted onto my list of...
Perfectionism 3 - Brene Brown - The Hazardous Detour
September 25, 2023 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBToday 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 performance, and what we can/should do about it to keep it from destroying our ability to grow and develop the best that we ca...
Continuous Improvement
September 18, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBToday 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 athletes" at points in our careers, and for most of us we deal with them every season. The quotes that I will be discus...
Perfectionism 1 - The Enemy of Good
September 11, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBToday 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 "perfectionist athletes" at points in our careers, and for most of us we deal with them every season. The quotes that I will be discu...
Labor Day - The Value of Hard Work
September 04, 2023 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBHappy 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 have not talked about before. For more information to help you on your road to becoming your best, check u...
Serving, Sacrifice, Culture, Relationships, & Communication
August 28, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBLong 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. There were some great quotes about the five words in the title of this episode from the four coaches, so I ta...
Intentional Action
August 21, 2023 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MBToday, 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't intentional and don't take action on them. Both quotes also fit right into the concepts of signific...
Pursue Significance
August 14, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MBThis 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 cover them before I finished this series on significance. Both quotes also fit right into the concepts of signifi...
Qualities of a Life of Significance
August 09, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBMy 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 late in releasing an episode of the podcast in the first 176 episodes. Oh well, instead of beati...
It's About Who We Are
July 31, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWe 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 the power and importance of caring for others. These quotes also help expand on the concepts of significan...
Significance Day-by-Day
July 24, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.6 MBWe 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 Maxwell quote is exactly what you would expect from Maxwell—something that is spot-on if we want to b...
Impacting Others' Lives - Robinson & Mandela
July 17, 2023 06:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBWe 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 even more powerful, for these two men were two of the most impactful people our world has ever known. ...
Success vs Significance
July 10, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBWe 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 SlamDunk Significance program that I told you about a few weeks ago. Josephson and Blanchard both show...
Focus on Significance - Oprah
July 03, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWe kick off Season 7 of the podcast with a follow-up to the last few week's ideas on significance and my new program called SlamDunk Significance with a quote from Oprah Winfrey. This quote continues to expan on the concepts of success and significance that I have been discussing as I build the SlamDunk Significance program that I told you about a few weeks ago. Oprah nails a few concepts I have strongly believed in for many years now as a teacher and coach, and I think you will find them e...
Rare, Isolated Moments of the Greatest Significance
June 26, 2023 06:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBWe follow up the last couple of week's ideas on significance and my new program called SlamDunk Significance with a quote from philosopher & poet, Friedrich Nietzsche about significance, too. I was not ready to talk about this quote. I was ready with a whole different quote that I have wanted to talk about for quite a while. However, quotes and ideas about the concept of "significance" keep showing up in my life. This quote showed up this morning in a book of inspirational ideas that I was...
Coaching for Significance
June 19, 2023 13:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBWe follow up last week's announcement about my new program called SlamDunk Significance with a quote that was one of the most impactful quotes for coaches that I have ever seen. It comes to us from Bruce Brown, the Founder and Director of Proactive Coaching. As most of you know I am a speaker on the Proactive Coaching team. It has been one of the great joys and honors of my coaching life to be a member of this team. Bruce has taught me so much that has had such a huge impact on me as a coa...
SlamDunk Significance
June 12, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBWell, this is it. I have been telling you for 11 weeks that I have a mission, project, venture, or whatever you want to call it in mind that the book Change Your World, by John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins gave me so many signs saying it's time to get going on. In today's episode, I reveal what that mission is. I am so excited to get this out to the world, and I hope you will be, too. You can be a big part of it. Depending on who you are and what your focus is, there is a place for you to be ...
Change Your World 10 - Your MTP
June 05, 2023 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBOk, first of all, let me say, "Don't let the length of this episode scare you away." I know it's long compared to most of my episodes, but it is filled with great quotes and ideas from a few different sources. Last week was the final week of our discussions of the book "Change Your World" by John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins. This week we wrap up our series based on that book by doing something a little different than what I thought I was going to do at the start of the series through about t...
Change Your World 9 - It's Your Turn to Change Your World
May 29, 2023 06:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBWe come to the final week of our discussions of the book Change Your World by John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins. We have made our way through eight episodes covering the first eight chapters, and today we cover the final chapter of the book, "It's Your Turn to Change Your World." In Chapter 9, Maxwell & Hoskins review the first eight chapters, showing us how they were broken up into four phases, each containing two chapters. Then, they point to the future, offering us the chance to figure out ...
Change Your World 8 - Let's Keep Talking
May 22, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBA couple of months ago we started a series based on a theme from a book I finished reading a couple of weeks before that. That book was showing me signs that were telling me it was time to act on something that I was considering doing. The title of the book is Change Your World by John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins. I originally figured that I would do the first week's episode on the entire book and then move on to a new theme. However, I started doing what Maxwell has suggested in other books -...
Change Your World 7 - What Gets Done Gets Measured
May 15, 2023 06:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBOver a month ago we started a series based on a theme from a book I finished reading a couple of weeks before that. That book was showing me signs that were telling me it was time to act on something that I was considering doing. The title of the book is Change Your World by John Maxwell and Rob Hoskins. I originally figured that I would do the first week's episode on the entire book and then move on to a new theme. However, I started doing what Maxwell has suggested in other books - takin...