Coaching Quotes - Page 14

• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

  Hannah Kearney

  Simple, Advice, Done

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• Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Style, Trying

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• In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Player, Planning

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• No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Jobs, Team

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• Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Confusion

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Winning, Losing

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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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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• Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Basketball, Writing, Ideas

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• The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

  Frosty Westering

  Success, Basketball, Heart

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• The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

  Frosty Westering

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

  Paul Westhead

  Basketball, Running, Keys

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• I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Basketball, Achieve, Wanted

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• Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Attitude, Fundamentals

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• Play against the Game, not your opponent.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• Be quick without hurrying.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Basketball Coaching, Hurrying

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Practice, Coaches

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• Players will never do more than you demand.

  Jimmy Tillette

  Basketball, Player, Demand

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• I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

  Scotty Bowman

  Sports, Hockey, Winning

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• At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Spring

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• You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Bother, Ifs

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• We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

  P. J. Carlesimo

  Basketball, Team, Knowing

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