Basketball Coach Quotes

• Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Dream, Nba

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• A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Leader

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• Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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• Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, People, Coaching

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin

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• Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Loss

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Attitude

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  Pat Riley

  Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Champion, Up To You

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Great Coach

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• Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Mean

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• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Care

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• Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

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• People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

  Elgin Baylor

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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• The most important thing is team morale.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Men

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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