Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 2

• Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

  Jim Harrick

  Basketball, People, Coaching

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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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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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

  Lon Kruger

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• One man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• 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.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Basketball, Art, Hurt

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.70, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Attitude

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• The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Team

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  Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

  John Wooden

  Life, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.88, B&H Publishing Group

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• Practice to beat the best.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

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• We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

  Steve Alford

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Stress

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Football

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• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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