Coaches Quotes - Page 26

• X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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• Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Nba, Coaching

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• Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Coaches win practices, players win games

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Team, Commitment

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• I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence

  Bo Ryan

  Basketball, Persistence, Nba

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• Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

  Joe Dumars

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Even Spartacus needs a coach.

  Breaux Greer

  Needs, Spartacus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see Boris Becker, Mats Wilander, Nadal, Pete Sampras - they were all great when they were young. As a coach, you can see that type of talent at an early age.

  Brad Gilbert

  Age, Nadal, Talent

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.

  Aubrey Malphurs

  Unique, Asking Questions, Leader

  Aubrey Malphurs (2006). “Maximizing Your Effectiveness: How to Discover and Develop Your Divine Design”, p.221, Baker Books

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• There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

  Jay Leno

  Money, Doors, Class

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• The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Running, Disappointment, Pumpkin

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• Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.

  Damon Runyon

  Success, Boys, Car

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• When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

  Hayden Fry

  Wall, Color, Games

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• I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Dad, Father

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• Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

  Skip Prosser

  Moving, Player, Thinking

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• There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

  Tim Henman

  Player, Russia, Europe

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• I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.

  Mike Sherman

  Adversity, Character, Thinking

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