If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
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.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
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.
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.
Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team
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