It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
The most important thing is team morale.
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.
Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
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