Basketball Leadership Quotes - Page 2

• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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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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• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Perseverance

  "The Graduation Speech I Never Got to Give" by Laura Myers, ndsmcobserver.com. May 20, 2011.

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Leader, Doe

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• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  Pat Riley

  Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, People

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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• Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Leader, Healthy, Best Coaches

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• If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

  Billy Donovan

  Motivational, Basketball, Nba

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• Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

  John Wooden

  Life, Adversity, Men

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.162, B&H Publishing Group

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• A lion never roars after a kill.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Lions

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.42, Penguin

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• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

  John Wooden

  Ucla, Inspirational Basketball, Motivational Basketball

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• Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Mean

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• The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teamwork, People

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• I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Mean, Thinking

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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