Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 3

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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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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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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• 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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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Running, Class

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• Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

  Kelvin Sampson

  Basketball, Team, Philosophy

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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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• Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

  Sue Gunter

  Basketball, Caring, Practice

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• Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Kids, Winning

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• Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Night, Coaching

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• Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teamwork, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• Players will never do more than you demand.

  Jimmy Tillette

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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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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• 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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• Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

  Dick Motta

  Basketball, Coaching, Contribution

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• What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Player, Lsu

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• My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Games, Keys

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• Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Adversity, Winning

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• Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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