Basketball Coach Quotes:

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

topic: Basketball, Basketball Coach, Great Coach

quote it s the little details that are vital little things make big things happen john wooden Quotes

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

source: John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Courage, Sports Coach, Sports Leadership

Quotation Michael Jordan I can accept failure everyone fails at something But I Quotes

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

Quotation Michael Jordan You have to expect things of yourself before you can Quotes

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Sports, Athlete, Famous Basketball, Don't Play Games

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

topic: Basketball, Inspiration, Recovery, Sports Competition, True Champion

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Football, Notre Dame, Inspirational Coach

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

topic: Sports, Motivational Sports, Games, Sports Leadership, Basketball Leadership

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

topic: Basketball, Games, Coaching, Basketball Coaching, Good Basketball

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

topic: Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

- Jim Harrick

topic: Basketball, People, Coaching, Basketball Coaching, Ability To Communicate

Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.

- Sue Gunter

topic: Basketball, Caring, Practice, Janitor, Basketball Coach

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Discipline, Coaching, Demeaning, Basketball Coach

Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

- Jim Harrick

topic: Basketball, Hate, Love You, Inspire And Motivate, Kids Love

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Inspiring Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Attitude, Winning And Losing, Basketball Coach

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Nba, Don't Ever Give Up, Basketball Coach

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

topic: Volleyball, Team, Groups, Basketball Coach

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

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Life, Positive, Basketball, Sports Coach, Sports Coaching

- Jim Valvano

topic: Basketball, Blessed, Office, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

The most important thing is team morale.

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.

topic: Basketball, Team, Coaching, Morale, Basketball Coach

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

topic: Basketball, Team, School, Basketball Coach, Disrespected

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

source: Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.141, Penguin

topic: Basketball, People, Coaching, Basketball Coach

- Sara Bareilles

source: Song: Uncharted, Album: Kaleidoscope Heart, 2010

topic: Law Of Attraction, Motivational Basketball, Want, Great Coach, Chicken Soup

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Basketball, Team, Winning, Inspirational Coach, Sports Coaching

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

- Adolph Rupp

topic: Basketball, Games, Coaching, Famous Coach, Basketball Coach

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

- Adolph Rupp

topic: Basketball, Night, Coaching, Famous Coach, Basketball Coach

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Player, Sports Coaching, College Basketball

- Pat Summitt

topic: Basketball, Loyalty, Giving, Basketball Coach

The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.

- Jerry Tarkanian

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Player, Basketball Coach, Basketball Court

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

- Helio Gracie

topic: Art, Mma, Great Art, Famous Basketball, Winning Losing

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.

- Pat Summitt

topic: Basketball Coach

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

topic: Beautiful, Motivation, Grateful, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Coaching

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

source: Mike Krzyzewski, Jamie K. Spatola (2006). “Beyond Basketball: Coach K's Keywords for Success”, p.32, Hachette UK

topic: Basketball, Sports, Volleyball, Best Coaches, Sports Coaching

- Jerry Tarkanian

topic: Basketball, Cheer, Crazy, Famous Basketball, Team Player

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Dream, Cassius, Martial Arts Inspirational

People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

topic: Basketball, Volleyball, Team, Something Bigger Than Yourself, Best Coaches

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation, Inspirational Learning, Sports Coaching

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

topic: Life, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Good Sportsmanship, Motivational Basketball

There is no such thing as life in-between.

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Sports Training, Basketball Leadership

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

topic: Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Coaching, Inspirational Commitment

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Men, Advice, Motivational Coaching, Coaches And Players

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character, Sports Coaching, Sports Leadership

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

topic: Life, Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Coach, Basketball Coaching

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

source: "The Wizard's wisdom: 'Woodenisms'", www.espn.com. June 4, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude