Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 12

• The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Attitude, Team

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.97, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Moving, Heart

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• When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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• When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Coaching, Teammate

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• The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Giving Up, Coaching

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• Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Two

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• Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Coaching, Teach

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• As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Leader, Coaching

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• Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, People, Coaching

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin

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• The most important thing is team morale.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Selfish, Player

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• I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Thinking, Coaching

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