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Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals — Jack Ramsay

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it." — Frank Deford

It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game — Lou Holtz

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding. — Dick Motta

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed. — Jim Valvano

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them — Chuck Daly

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television. — Dean Smith

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did. — Matthew Stafford

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge. — Don Meyer

I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life. — Michael Josephson

I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively. — Hannibal Buress

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach — Don Meyer

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court — Hubie Brown

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team. — Mike Krzyzewski

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo! — Shaquille O'Neal

You must have a passion to coach. — Rick Majerus

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept. — Dean Smith

As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse. — Brian Tracy

Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now. — Jerry Krause

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head. — Karl Malone

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

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players — Chuck Daly

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that — John Calipari

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care. — Frank Layden

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players. — David Maraniss

I think I am upsetting the coach. — Yao Ming

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick. — Winfrey Sanderson

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself. — Mike Krzyzewski

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach. — Don Meyer

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10. — Dean Smith

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary. — George Karl

I have no desire to coach basketball. — Kevin Johnson

Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions — Jack Ramsay

The team is an extension of the coach. — Don Meyer

What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done? — George Vecsey

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no. — Bill Walton

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. — John Wooden

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid. — Phil Jackson

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

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach. — John Wooden

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os. — Oscar Robertson

Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours. — Norm Sloan

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me. — Shane Battier

Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had. — Shaquille O'Neal

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery. — Adolph Rupp

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined. — Romeo Miller

Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's Coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you. — Bobby Knight

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity — Steve Nash

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English. — Yao Ming

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious. — Al McGuire

John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame. — Carol S. Dweck

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. — Colin Powell

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski

In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown. — Allen Iverson

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. — Bill Gates

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end. — Shaquille O'Neal

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication. — George Halas