伟大的篮球教练执教格言（二）

Coach Phil Jackson Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one." -- Phil Jackson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Basketball is sharing." -- Phil Jackson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We." -- Phil Jackson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor." -- Phil Jackson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself." -- Phil Jackson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court." -- Mike Jarvis

Coach Bobby Knight Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter." -- Bobby Knight (1976, 1981, and 1987 Indiana teams won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the break, an outstanding scorer, whatever it is that they like to do and rely on, you have to work in your plans on taking that completely or as much as possible away from them." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Practice structure determines success." -- Bobby Knight

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now." -- Jerry Krause

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game." -- Lon Kruger

Coach K Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today." -- Mike Krzyzewski (1991, 1992, and 2001 teams won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Play and practice like you are trying to make the team." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When you sub, tell player to give you three great minutes, and if you bust your butt, I'll give you an extra minute." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“I don’t think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it’s plural.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“You can’t defer if you’re the person who’s in the leadership position.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“...you can’t play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows." -- Mike Krzyzewski

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif“Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.” -- Mike Krzyzewski

Coach Tom Landry Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team." -- Tom Landry

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals." -- Tom Landry

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management." -- Tom Landry

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be" -- Tom Landry

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away." -- Tommy Lasorda

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies." -- Abe Lemons

Coach Vince Lombardi Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The one's who win get inside their players and motivate." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Contrary to the opinion of many people, leaders are not born. Leaders are made, and they are made by effort and hard work." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Individual commitment to a group effort - that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result." -- Vince Lombardi

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"You better have great practices." -- Al McGuire (1977 Marquette team won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious." -- Al McGuire

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you." -- Mike McConathy

Coach Rick Majerus Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"You must have a passion to coach." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Great shooters are one dribble guys." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them." -- Rick Majerus

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"You don't beat people with surprise, you beat them with execution." -- John McKay

Coach Don Meyer Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it." -- Don Meyer (1986 David Lipscomb team won the NAIA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When you watch the game, be a student of the game." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The team is an extension of the coach." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Every day you teach attitude." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"To be a team, you must be a family." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Shout praise and whisper criticism." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Discipline and demand without being demeaning." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"You build your program from the ideas of great coaches." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball." Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Prepare for every practice like you just loss your last game." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter." -- Don Meyer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach." -- Don Meyer

Coach Ralph Miller Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals." -- Ralph Miller (Oregon State coach who retired in 1989 as the sixth all-time winningest NCAA Division 1 coach with 674 victories)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch." -- Ralph Miller

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly." -- Ralph Miller

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding." -- Dick Motta

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players." -- Pete Newell

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing." -- Chuck Noll

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people." -- Tom Osborne

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Have a spiritual basis which guides you in life. Have a philosophy of life to live by." -- Tom Osborne

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity." -- Tom Osborne

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are." -- Ara Parasheghian

Coach Rick Pitino Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it." -- Rick Pitino (1996 Kentucky team won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Deserve Victory." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Don't coach mad." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays." Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do." -- Rick Pitino

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself." -- Rick Pitino

Coach Pat Riley Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"No rebounds - no rings." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals." -- Knute Rockne

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Coaching is a people business. If you take care of your people, the wins and losses will fall into place. Treat people well. You've got to figure out how to work with each one of them. They might not like you every day, but they must respect you." -- Carol Ross

Coach Adolph Rupp Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win." -- Adolph Rupp (1948, 1949, 1951, and 1958 Kentucky teams won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game." -- Adolph Rupp

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working." -- Adolph Rupp

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man." -- Adolph Rupp

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player." -- Kelvin Sampson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when you team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing." -- Bo Schembechler

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner." -- Bo Schembechler

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily." -- Larry Shyatt

Coach Norm Sloan Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"To be successful you need to have good, happy Players." -- Norm Sloan (1974 NC State team won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example." -- Norm Sloan

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven." -- Norm Sloan

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages." -- Norm Sloan

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense." -- Norm Sloan

Coach Dean Smith Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"What to do with a mistake--recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it." -- Dean Smith (1982 and 1993 North Carolina teams won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The most important thing is team morale." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I've always believed in quickness over strength and size." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The key statistic is still to get to the foul line." -- Dean Smith

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If you're going to make every game a matter of life or death, you're going to have a lot of problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot." -- Dean Smith

Coach Pat Summitt Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Confidence is what happens when you've done the hard work that entitles you to succeed." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Discipline is about more than just punishment. Discipline is the internal structure that supports your organization. Used properly, it can help you maintain order without every having to actually do the unpleasant work or punishing people. It is the basis of leadership. Discipline is the only sure way I now to convince people to believe in themselves. Discipline is the internal mechanism that self-motivates you. It gets you out of bed in the morning. It gets you to work on time and it tells you when you need to work late. It drives you. It is essential to success, whether individually or in a group." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Put the Team Before Yourself." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught." -- Pat Summitt

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get." -- Jerry Tarkanian (1990 UNLV team won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy." -- Jerry Tarkanian

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Players will never do more than you demand." -- Jimmy Tillette

Coach Jimmy Valvano Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed." -- Jim Valvano (1983 NC State team won the NCAA championship)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"All really successful coaches have a system." -- Jim Valvano

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. You have to be willing to work for it." -- Jim Valvano

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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." -- Jim Valvano

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself." -- Jim Valvano

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper." -- Tara Vanderveer

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Winning is about having the whole team on the same page." -- Bill Walton

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Players don't care how much I know until they know how much I care." -- Frosty Westering

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team." -- Frosty Westering

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates." -- Paul Westhead

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else." -- Lenny Wilkins

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"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

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success." -- Bud Wilkinson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Play against the Game, not your opponent." -- Bud Wilkinson

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else." -- Tex Winter

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet." -- Tex Winter

Coach John Wooden Quotes

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort." -- John Wooden (UCLA team set all-time records with four perfect 30-0 seasons, 88 consecutive victories, and 10 NCAA championships)

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Be quick without hurrying." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Conditioning is essential to success in basketball." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Do passing drills that come from your offense." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The team is the star, never an individual player." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Nothing will work unless you do." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change may be." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier." -- John Wooden

http://www.coachlikeapro.com/images/icons/Bball%20Man%20Icon.gif"Leadership starts at the top." -- Morgan Wooten