The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
Shout praise and whisper criticism.
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
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