Coaching Quotes - Page 30

• It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Matter, Coaches

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• When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

  Pete Newell

  Basketball, Team, Responsibility

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• Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

  Chuck Noll

  Basketball, Funny Inspirational, Funny Motivational

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• I learn teaching from teachers. I learn golf from golfers. I learn winning from coaches.

  Harvey Penick

  Sports, Teacher, Teaching

  Harvey Penick, Davis Love III (2012). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Hard Work, People

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• Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity.

  Tom Osborne

  Basketball, Adversity, Winning

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• Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

  Dick Motta

  Basketball, Contribution, Coaches

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• It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Want

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• The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Games, Keys

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• You can only really yell at the players you trust.

  Bill Parcells

  Sports, Player

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• In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Games, Errors

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• We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Simple, Player

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• Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that’s where a relationship is developed. I don’t make a player, and a player doesn’t make me a coach. We make each other.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Confused, Player, Thinking

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The most important thing is team morale.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Team, Important

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• I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, People, Trying

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• As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.

  Robin Farina

  Sports, Cycling, Juniors

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• Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, People, Happens

  Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin

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• Coaching in the NFL is very much a fraternity. It's about who you know and if you work with them well. Head coach Bruce Arians would give me the highest recommendation, and I've already had guys who said they would love to bring me with them to another team.

  Jennifer Welter

  Team, Giving, Guy

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

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• Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

  Indra Nooyi

  Way, Helping, Mentoring

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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