Basketball Coaching Quotes - Page 8

• Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

  Woody Hayes

  Basketball, Character, Men

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

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Sports, Boss

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• I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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

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• Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

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• A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

  Bill Maher

  Teenage Girl, Flu, Shots

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Defense can't guard two things in a row.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Two, Coaching

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• Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• The first shot does not beat you.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Coaching, Firsts

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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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• Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.

  Henry Iba

  Basketball, Daughter, Son

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• Practice structure determines success.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Practice, Coaching

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• A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Team

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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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• I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Winning, Careers

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• I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• 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

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• For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

  Dick Bennett

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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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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• Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Team, Confusion

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• We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

  P. J. Carlesimo

  Basketball, Team, Knowing

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• I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Player, Parent

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