Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 11

• Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Fun, Player

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Loyalty, Giving

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• Put the Team Before Yourself.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

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• Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Basketball, Writing, Ideas

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• The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

  Paul Westhead

  Basketball, Running, Keys

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• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Moving, Play

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• I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

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• We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Kids

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• No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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• When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

  Terry Bowden

  Basketball, Coaching, Like You

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• We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Block, Player

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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• Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Use

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• Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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• Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Opportunity

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• I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Coaching, Size

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• The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Keys, Coaching

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• I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Thinking, Organization

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• Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Player, Guy

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• Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Men, Games

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• The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

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

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