Basketball Coach Quotes - Page 6

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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• Do your best when no one is looking.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Nba Player, Famous Basketball

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Volleyball, Business, Inspirational Life

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Love You, Player

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• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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• Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Sports, Spiritual

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, People

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  Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Beautiful, Player

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.142, Penguin

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

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Care

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• Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Leader, Best Coaches

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• Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Volleyball, Mean

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• Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Great Coach

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• When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Mistake

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Dream, Nba

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• You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

  Paul Westphal

  Inspirational, Basketball, Running

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• 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

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• We win because we play together as a team.

  John Havlicek

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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• The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Heart, Warrior

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

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• When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Opportunity, Victory

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