Timothy Gallwey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Teamwork #Teaching #Coaching
The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Leadership #Sports #People
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Sports #Glasses #Lakes
Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Winning #Goal #Overcoming
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Kings #Winning #Player
Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness of mind and character, no matter how well hidden.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Children #Character #Golf
Concentration is not staring hard at something. It is not trying to concentrate.
-- Timothy Gallwey

#Trying #Concentration #Staring

For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.
I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

Timothy Gallwey famous quotes

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