Red Auerbach Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

• I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Believe, Heart

• Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Pay The Price, May

  Red Auerbach, Joe Fitzgerald (1986). “On and Off the Court”, Bantam

• They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

• Just do what you do best.

  Red Auerbach

  Strength, Basketball, Motivational Sports

• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Children, Father

• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Team, Boston

• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Attention And Love, Self

• If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Thinking, Ifs

• It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

• If you're keeping score, win!

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Score

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• All records are made to be broken.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Broken, Records

  Interview with Ken Shouler, www.espn.com. October 28, 2006.

• I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Play, Missing

• The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Sports, Boss

• You can't win without the ball.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Balls

  "Auerbach: Jackson is 'a great coach'". Interview with ESPN.com, www.espn.com. June 21, 2005.

• Everything can happen in the playoffs.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Playoffs, Happens

  Interview with Ken Shouler, www.espn.com. October 28, 2006.

• Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Care

• He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Believe, Knowing Who You Are

• Look after your people.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, People, Looks

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Different, Situation

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Player, Talking

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

• When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

• You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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