Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Long Ago, Decision

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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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• Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

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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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• You better have great practices.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Practice, 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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• 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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• I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

  John Chaney

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Giving, Coaching

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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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• 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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• Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Blow, Wind

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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• Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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• A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Thinking

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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• In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Philosophy, Frustration

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