Coaching Quotes - Page 16

• You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.

  Marc Trestman

  Lasts, Lifetime

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• The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.

  Randy Carlyle

  Sports, Hockey, Hands

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  About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Tommy Lasorda, David Fisher (1986). “The Artful Dodger”, Avon Books

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• We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

  Steve Alford

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Stress

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• They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Basketball Coaching

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• Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Philosophy, Frustration

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• What does this program/team need this week?

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Doe

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• What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Player, Teach

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• Practice to beat the best.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Practice, Beats

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• We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Defense, Method

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Defense

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• Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Kids

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• I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Team, Real

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• Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Tape, Shows

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• What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Player, Lsu

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• You get what you tolerate!

  John Brady

  Basketball, Tolerate, Basketball Coaching

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• If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Team, Spoiled

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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• I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

  Darrell Royal

  Motivational, Sports, Mistake

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• We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Block, Player

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• We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.

  Jim Calhoun

  Basketball, Mistake, Mean

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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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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