Basketball Coaching Quotes

• If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Gratitude, Disappointment

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Teaching, Intelligent

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• If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Coaching, Bother

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• Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Basketball, Hands, Coaching

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• I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Essentials

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• Play against the Game, not your opponent.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Balls

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• You must have a passion to coach.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Passion, 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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• If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Guy

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• Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Men, Coaching

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• The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

  Frosty Westering

  Success, Basketball, Heart

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• Basketball is sharing.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Coaching

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• Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Pride, Play

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• I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Passion, Player

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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