From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.
In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.
Your either in or out. There's no in between.
I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.
Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.
When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
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