35 Quotes About Coaches Making a Difference

Having a leader and a coach in your life can make all the difference to how the outcome is for achieving certain goals. These quotes about coaches making a difference encourage you to find your own cheerleader in life.

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

“A good coach passes on information quickly. They do not hold back information that affects my job.”

“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”

“A manager is a title, it does not guarantee success. Coaching is an action, not a title and actions will result in successes!”

“As their coach, your job is to set the bar high, inspire them to reach this bar, encourage them, and most of all, guide them in the best possible manner and in the most supportive environment.”

“Coaches are aware of how to ignite passion and motivate people. They have an energy that is contagious and know exactly how to get their team excited.”

“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.”

“Coaching is a unique process of human development, one that works to change a person’s life for the better and help him/her achieve a number of specific objectives.”

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

“Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different.”

“Everything in coaching hinges on listening because what we are listening for affects where we are speaking from and unfolds how we are being with and for each other.”

“Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.”

“Good human-relations skills have the ability to change people from managing others to leading others.”

“Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn’t come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference.”

“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.”

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

“In a coaching role, you ask the questions and rely more on your staff, who become the experts, to provide the information.”

“Leaders empower individuals by building trust and coaching competence in their job roles and networking skills.”

“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.”

“Make no mistake, as you change your leadership style to one of a coach you will face challenges. There will be times when you question why am I doing this.”

“Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.”

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“Now, coaching is basically like what it is, it is someone that you have that is working with another person to help the other person’s goal.”

“People don’t only use a coach when there is a problem with their technique; they understand that no matter how good their technique is, there is always room for improvement.”

“People will exceed targets they set themselves.”

“Probably my best quality as a coach is that I ask a lot of challenging questions and let the person come up with the answer.”

“Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.”

“Successful coaches are visionaries. They have a picture of success set in their minds.”

“The actual awareness that the person opposite you is an entire world and isn’t lacking anything, and that you yourself are an entire world, allows you to coach him and to think about him in a positive way, from a place of reality and abundance.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.”

“The power of coaching is this – you are expected to give people the path to find answers, not the answers.”

“The test of a good coach is that when they leave, others will carry on successfully.”

“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”

“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.”

Making a positive difference in another person’s life is a great achievement to have.