Coaching Quotes - Page 23

• Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

  Mike McConathy

  Basketball, Hard Work, Player

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• You must have a passion to coach.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Passion, Coaches

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• My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• Great shooters are one dribble guys.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Guy, Shooter

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• Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Running, Block

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• The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Giving Up, Mismatch

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• During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Winning, Texas

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• To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Winning, Games

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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• Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

  Bill Parcells

  Player, Nfl, Trying

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• When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Player, Tuna

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• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Future, Order, Long

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Basketball, Running, Yesterday

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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  Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Time, Communication

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Important, Sound

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• Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Practice

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• When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Stars, Team

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• I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Thinking, People

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• I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Action

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• I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Thinking, Organization

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• I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Passion, Player

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• Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Teammate, Individual

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• The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Worst

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