Basketball Coach Quotes - Page 5

• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

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

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Recovery, Coaching

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• Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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• I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Basketball, Running, Yesterday

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.322, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

  Lon Kruger

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

  Mike Jarvis

  Basketball, Kids, Coaching

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• Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Sports, Moving

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• A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Team, Hands

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

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• False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

  Billy Donovan

  Basketball, Coaching, Hustle

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• Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Coaching, Spacing

  "Oklahoma City Adds Precision to Its Already Potent Offense" by Beckley Mason, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  Denny Crum

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Player

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• Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Coaching, Style

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• When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Shooter

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• Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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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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• It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Teach

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• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticism

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• Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

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• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Jobs, Children

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• The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Coaching, Movement

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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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