Coaching Quotes - Page 35

• Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Teamwork, Taught

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• I honestly didn't even know who the coach was when I was coming to New York. I just wanted to win a championship; I didn't even know who was coaching. I didn't care. It could have been Aunt Jemima. They could have had the syrup coaching. I was coming here regardless. I just wanted to win a championship here.

  Metta World Peace

  New York, Aunt, Winning

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• Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.

  Bill Courtney

  Believe, Winning, Player

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.13, Weinstein Publishing

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• You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Position, Persons

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• ...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

  Adolph Rupp

  Basketball, Games, Famous Coach

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• We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Stuff, Dukes

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• Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Blow, Wind

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Teamwork, Strong

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• When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was 'It will be O.K.' I would wonder, 'How the hell is it going to be O.K.?' The worst word in the English language is 'hope.'

  Bobby Knight

  Thinking, Firsts, Language

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• We have been so impressed with the Pocket Radar that it has become the only radar gun we use for coaching and scouting.

  Mike Candrea

  Gun, Pockets, Use

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• Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

  Pete Newell

  Teaching, Practice, Two

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• One of the main coaching points I've heard throughout my entire life is, 'How you respond to difficult situations defines your character,' and I think it's a good saying. I also think it applies to more than just the players.

  Chris Kluwe

  Character, Player, Thinking

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• Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.

  Rocky Bridges

  Blow, Squad, Bombs

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• The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.

  Johnny Majors

  Weed, Team, Successful

  Johnny Majors, Ben Byrd (1986). “You can go home again”

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• Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Pride, Play

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• Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

  Tex Winter

  Basketball, Moving, Play

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• If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Sports, Miserable

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• First master the fundamentals.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Sports, Self Motivation

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• Wisdom begins in wonder.

  Socrates

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Important, Sometimes

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Balls, Pressure

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• Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

  Woody Hayes

  Basketball, Character, Men

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• I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

  John Chaney

  Basketball, Winning, Guy

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