Basketball Coach Quotes - Page 4

• What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Real

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• Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Coaching, Tape

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• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

  Magic Johnson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Teamwork

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• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Hard Work

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• Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Children

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Journey

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

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• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticism

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• If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

  Nastia Liukin

  Basketball, Sports, Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012

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• Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Teach

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• Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Shooter

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• Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

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