Shout praise and whisper criticism.
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.
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
All really successful coaches have a system.
Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
Play the game with a smile.
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.
Don't let what other people think decide who you are.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.
I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'
Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.
Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.
I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.
My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.
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