Insights About Putting Together A Staff

  • Over the years I’ve learned a lot about coaching staffs and one piece of advice I would pass along to a young head coach—or a corporate executive, or even a bank president—is this: Don’t make them in your image. Don’t even try. My assistants don’t look alike, think alike, or have the same personalities. And I sure don’t want them thinking like I do. You don’t strive for sameness, you strive for balance.
-Bear Bryant
  • I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.
-Geno Auriemma
  • If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it—you almost don't have to manage them.
-Jack Welch
  • You can’t teach employees to smile. They have to smile before you hire them.
– Arte Nathan
  • Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he’s hired to do.
– Malcolm Forbes, 
  • Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for the love of it.
– Henry David Thoreau
  • Find ballplayers, not those who look good in baseball caps.
 Tom Monahan

  • People are not your most important asset. The right people are.
 Jim Collins
  • I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything.
 John Rockefeller
  • If you’re friends with someone, you should automatically assume that your evaluation of their skills, potential or work ethic is completely biased. I know you think you’re not like anyone else and your friend is the exception to the rule, but you’re not and he or she is not. Once you’ve come to terms with this, you can put yourself in a position to more accurately evaluate their performance and attempt to manage them.
 Jared Mendelewicz
  • Don't confuse loyalty with stupidity!
  • If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs.
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A follow-up to the best seller A Season In Words, Dan Spainhour has followed the same format except this time all of the quotes are from coaches! A terrific motivational tool for any coach at any level!




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