Basketball Coaching Quotes
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Basketball Coaching Quotes & Sayings
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Practice to beat the best.
— Dick Bennett
Players will never do more than you demand.
— Jimmy Tillette
Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.
— John Wooden
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
— Vince Lombardi
You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
— Bill Parcells
The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.
— Mike Jarvis
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.
— Dick Bennett
What does this program/team need this week?
— Dick Bennett
Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.
— Bud Wilkinson
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
— John Wooden
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
— Don Meyer
To be a team, you must be a family.
— Don Meyer
Every day you teach attitude.
— Don Meyer
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.
— Hubie Brown
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.
— Rick Majerus
Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.
— Jerry Krause
Leadership starts at the top.
— Morgan Wootten
You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
— Vince Lombardi
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
— George Halas
Put the Team Before Yourself.
— Pat Summitt
Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.
— Larry Shyatt
Bad shooters are always open
— Pete Carril
You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.
— John Wooden
The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.
— Dean Smith
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
— Tom Landry
Basketball is sharing.
— Phil Jackson
Hearing improves with PRAISE!
— Mark Gottfried
You must have a passion to coach.
— Rick Majerus
The first shot does not beat you.
— Chuck Daly
All really successful coaches have a system.
— Jim Valvano
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
— Adolph Rupp
It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.
— John Wooden
The team is an extension of the coach.
— Don Meyer
Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
— Pat Summitt
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
— John Brady
Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
— John Wooden
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
— Frosty Westering
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
Defense can't guard two things in a row.
— Chuck Daly
You better have great practices.
— Al McGuire
I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
— John Wooden
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.
— Dean Smith
The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
— Mike Krzyzewski
Be quick without hurrying.
— John Wooden
Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
— Henry Iba
I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.
— Dean Smith
Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team
— Jack Ramsay
Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
— John Wooden
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
— Lenny Wilkens
Do passing drills that come from your offense.
— John Wooden
Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.
— Chuck Daly
Coaching is preparation.
— Pete Carril
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
— John Brady
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.
— Hubie Brown
The most important thing is team morale.
— Dean Smith