Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 3

• 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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  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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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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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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• 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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• Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

  Mike McConathy

  Basketball, Hard Work, Player

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• You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Ideas, Coaching

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• Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Dirty, Pigs

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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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• 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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• 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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• It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Matter

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• There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Giving, Coaching

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• Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

  Dick Motta

  Basketball, Coaching, Contribution

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

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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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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• If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Kids, Winning

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• You better have great practices.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

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• You get what you tolerate!

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Tolerate

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