The Quotable Coach

by Loverro, Thom

• ISBN13: 9781564146458
• ISBN10: 1564146456
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Career Pr Inc

Summary

Sports coaches, perhaps more than any other profession in America, are the best at delivering these short pithy quotes. First book to gather more than a thousand of these inspirational wonders. Filled with words to stoke your competitive fires, touch your heart, raise your level of motivation, or even make you laugh. Written by a sports columnist. Softcover.

Author Biography

Thom Loverro has been a sports columnist at The Washington Times for 10 years, covering a variety of sports from football, basketball, and baseball to a wide variety of events, including the World Series, the NBA playoffs, championship boxing, and the Olympics.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(9)
Introduction	9	(2)
Ability	11	(1)
Accomplishments	11	(1)
Accountability	11	(1)
Adversity	12	(1)
Advice	12	(1)
Age	13	(1)
Anthems	13	(1)
Arrogance	13	(1)
Attitude	13	(1)
Authority	14	(1)
Awards	14	(1)
Sparky Anderson	15	(14)
Red Auerbach	29	(8)
Ballplayers	37	(1)
Baseball	38	(3)
Basketball	41	(1)
Beauty	42	(1)
Biorhythms	42	(1)
Boss, The	42	(1)
Yogi Berra	43	(8)
Bobby Bowden	51	(10)
Bear Bryant	61	(10)
Cards	71	(1)
Challenges	71	(1)
Champions	71	(1)
Championships	72	(1)
Character	73	(1)
Cheating	73	(1)
Clothes	74	(1)
Coaching	74	(5)
Commissioners	79	(1)
Committees	80	(1)
Commitment	80	(1)
Communication	80	(1)
Competition	81	(1)
Complaining	82	(1)
Confidence	82	(1)
Consistency	82	(1)
Credit	83	(1)
Crime	83	(1)
Criticism	83	(1)
Cursing	83	(2)
Dancing	85	(1)
Death	85	(1)
Dedication	86	(1)
Defeat	86	(1)
Defense	86	(1)
Demons	86	(1)
Desire	87	(1)
Details	87	(1)
Determination	88	(1)
Discipline	89	(1)
Dreams	89	(1)
Drinking	89	(1)
Dynasties	90	(1)
Education	91	(1)
Effort	91	(1)
Emotion	92	(1)
Excellence	92	(1)
Excuses	92	(1)
Experts	92	(1)
Faith	93	(1)
Fans	94	(2)
Fear	96	(1)
Fighting	96	(1)
Flexibility	97	(1)
Food	97	(1)
Football	97	(2)
Friendships	99	(1)
Fundamentals	99	(2)
Eddie Futch	101	(8)
Goals	109	(1)
Greatness	110	(1)
Golf	110	(1)
Hockey	111	(1)
Home field	112	(1)
Home runs	112	(1)
Honesty	112	(1)
Humor	113	(1)
Hustle	113	(2)
Ignorance	115	(1)
Individualists	115	(1)
Injuries	115	(1)
Intelligence	116	(2)
Intensity	118	(1)
Jobs	119	(4)
Bobby Knight	123	(12)
Leadership	135	(1)
Learning	135	(1)
Leisure	135	(1)
Life	136	(1)
Losing	136	(4)
Luck	140	(1)
Tom Landry	141	(8)
Tommy Lasorda	149	(14)
Vince Lombardi	163	(12)
Managing	175	(2)
Marriage	177	(1)
Mistakes	178	(1)
Money	179	(1)
Morale	179	(1)
Motivation	180	(1)
Offense	181	(1)
Olympics	181	(1)
Opening Day	181	(1)
Opportunity	182	(1)
Owners	182	(1)
Passion	183	(1)
People	183	(1)
Performance	184	(1)
Persistence	184	(1)
Perspective	184	(1)
Physique	185	(1)
Pitching	185	(1)
Players	186	(1)
Politics	187	(1)
Popularity	187	(1)
Potential	187	(1)
Practice	188	(1)
Praise	188	(1)
Preparation	189	(1)
Pressure	190	(1)
Pride	190	(1)
Problems	190	(1)
Joe Paterno	191	(10)
Race	201	(1)
Referees	202	(1)
Rejection	202	(1)
Revenge	203	(1)
Respect	203	(1)
Responsibility	203	(1)
Retirement	203	(1)
Rivalries	204	(1)
Rules	204	(1)
Eddie Robinson	205	(6)
Frank Robinson	211	(8)
Knute Rockne	219	(8)
Sanity	227	(1)
Scandal	228	(1)
Schedules	228	(1)
Selfishness	228	(1)
Selflessness	229	(1)
Service	229	(1)
Sex	229	(1)
Sleep	229	(1)
Smoking	230	(1)
Soul	230	(1)
Sportsmanship	230	(1)
Sportswriters	231	(1)
Spouses	231	(1)
Stadiums	231	(1)
Statistics	232	(1)
Strategy	232	(1)
Stress	233	(1)
Success	234	(1)
Superstitions	234	(1)
Casey Stengel	235	(16)
Talent	251	(4)
Teaching	255	(1)
Teams	255	(1)
Teamwork	256	(2)
Temper	258	(1)
Thinking	258	(1)
Ties	258	(1)
Trades	258	(1)
John Thompson	259	(10)
Umpires	269	(1)
Underachieving	270	(1)
Uniforms	270	(1)
Values	271	(2)
Winning	273	(3)
Work ethic	276	(1)
John Wooden	277	(10)
About the Author	287