#coach

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #humor #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-heroes-of-olympus

To be a runner is to learn continual life lessons. To be a coach is not just to teach these lessons but also to feel them in the core of your marrow. The very act of surpassing personal limits in training and racing will bend the mind and body toward a higher purpose for the rest of my runners' lives. Settling for mediocrity-settling instead of pushing-those who learn to be the best version of themselves know the secret to a full life. ↗

— Martin Dugard

#inspirational #life #runner #inspirational

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#call #coaches #father #give #give me

We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car. ↗

— Bode Miller

#bent #car #cheek #coach #cream

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works. ↗

— Linford Christie

#coach #establishment #i #i am #outside

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. ↗

— Joe Montana

#car #coaches #coaching #hard #hard job

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. ↗

— Candace Parker

#coach #dad #drove #extremely #first

You want your coach's blessing. ↗

— Candace Parker

#coach #want #you #your

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#coaching #everything #failure #fertilizer #good

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach. ↗

— Don Shula

#about #analyzing #coach #coaching #done