Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
To be a team, you must be a family.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.
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