“Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.”
Basketball Coaching Quotes
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Basketball Coaching Quotes
“A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.”
“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.”
Source: Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World
“Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.”
“I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.”
“I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.”
“I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.”
“I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.”
“Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.”
“The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.”
“You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.”
“...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.”
“We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.”
Source: Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life
“Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.”
Source: Tom Landry: an autobiography
“Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be”
“Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.”
Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers
“My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.”
“To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.”
“Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.”
“When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.”
“If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.”