Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
Have character, don't be one.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
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.
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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.
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.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
Every day you teach attitude.
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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