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Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game. — Lon Kruger

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

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett

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

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best. — Dick Bennett

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before. — Terry Bowden

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual. — Dean Smith

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success. — Bud Wilkinson

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations. — Don Meyer

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example. — Norm Sloan

When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else — Don Meyer

Every day you teach attitude. — Don Meyer

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

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength. — Vince Lombardi

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working. — Adolph Rupp

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense. — Chuck Daly

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Coaching is preparation. — Pete Carril

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. — Pat Riley

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise. — Dean Smith

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

You better have great practices. — Al McGuire

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize. — John Wooden

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one. — Mike Krzyzewski

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught. — Pat Summitt

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer

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

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game. — Adolph Rupp

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots. — Don Meyer

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

We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. — Mike Krzyzewski

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out. — Dean Smith