Coaching Quotes - Page 29

• A winner never whines.

  Paul Brown

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Guy

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• Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Add

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• Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Teach, Inspirational Basketball

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• Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Son

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• Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Two

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• Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Shooter, Shots

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• Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Player

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• Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

  51 Copy quote

• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Criticism, Praise

  17 Copy quote

• When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Watches

  36 Copy quote

• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaches

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• When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Heart, Legs

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• The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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• I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Football, Motivational Sports, College

  12 Copy quote

• There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Player, Staff

  4 Copy quote

• You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

  Lord Byron

  Work, Passion, People

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• Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

  Peter Facinelli

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

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

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• The only real training for leadership is leadership.

  Antony Jay

  Leadership, Real, Training

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

  58 Copy quote

• If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Long Ago, Decision

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• Every day you teach attitude.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Attitude, Teach

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• To be a team, you must be a family.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Basketball Coaching

  14 Copy quote

• You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Ideas, Program

  54 Copy quote