Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: June 14, 1952 Death: June 28, 2016
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out..
See yourself as self employed..
I've always put great emphasis on the academics and getting your degree. It's important because basketball is short term. The long term is what are y….
To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth th….
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put ….
There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship w….
My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chan….
By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - y….
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear..
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen..
The absolute heart of loyalty is to value those people who tell you the truth, not just those people who tell you what you want to hear. In fact, you….
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces..
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily..
I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'.
Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goa….
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them..
Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success..
Our emphasis is on execution, not winning..
Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work..
Put the Team Before Yourself..