Thursday, August 26, 2010

leadership Quotes

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.-- Bill Walsh

Leadership, like coaching, is fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you.
-- Eddie Robinson

Coaching is a profession of love. You can't coach people unless you love them.
-- Eddie Robinson

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
-- Tom Landry

My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
-- Don Shula

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.-- Pat Riley

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Quotes on The Process

I apologize for the long break I took from my blog.  I will once again be posting blog posts on a more regular basis.  My first 1 back is on some quotes that deal with taking care of the process.  Quoted are Nick Saban (Alabama), Derek Dooley (Tennessee), and Jimbo Fisher (FSU)
"Process-oriented thinking as opposed to outcome-oriented thinking: Some times you want to win so fast you don't know how to win. Our goal is to get the structure of the staff and the support and resources in place to facilitate a winning plan and get players into the structure and start affecting change now." Jimbo Fisher

"I don't think it's normal to be great. I think it's special. The human condition is to be average and to survive. And everybody assumes that everybody wants to be as good as they can be all the time, but that's not true. If that was the case, everybody would be doing fantastic out there, right? So it's special to be as good as you can be. It's special to work to reach your full potential. It's special to go do it every day, day-in and day-out and never give yourself a break."
Nick Saban

"(One) thing that's important that we do is start developing our brand of how we compete and how we play. We shouldn't ever lose sight of that. I'm talking not just schematically, but more so from an intangible standpoint -- what kind of competitive spirit we practice and play with. What's our discipline level? What's our toughness level What's our effort level on every play?"
Derek Dooley

"Everybody has got to ask themselves what they've got to do to get better, but I think the message to the team was 'Wherever you are, make a commitment to try and improve and raise the standard of how you can execute to help your unit and our team, how you can improve yourself, in terms of the effort that you give, the toughness that you play with and the ability to execute."
Nick Saban

"I would really like players to have more positive thoughts about practice, have fun in practice, look forward to how they can improve in practice, and how we can play better in games, have more positive thoughts rather than the difficulty of it all." Nick Saban

"We can all change. We can all learn. That's what separates guys -- the ability to learn and process information. We're not a very situation-smart football team. That's why we constantly put them in (situations) and educate them as to what to do." Jimbo FIsher

"I think it's important that your team become situationally smart -- trying to understand what the offense is thinking on second-and-10; playing the strengths and playing the weaknesses on third downs." Derek Dooley

"Everybody here can be replaced; coaches, players -- everybody. Stick your hand in a bucket of water and pull it out. The hole that's left is how much people will miss you, at any job."
Jimbo Fisher

"You hope the surprises are more the guys who really maybe didn't flash in shorts but now they're showing up (at practice) because of their toughness and because of their explosive power. That shows up more in pads -- especially up front in the trenches. That's really what you're looking at." Derek Dooley

My theory is if we're not coaching it, we're letting it happen." Nick Saban