Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: June 14, 1952 Death: June 28, 2016
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achiev….
Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have..
Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough..
I remember every player-every single one-who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually ….
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine..
When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your rea….
I think that it was a great feeling and probably a little bit more special because of the length of time that had passed before we won, but I think m….
If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing..
No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength..
I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're….
Make Winning an Attitude..
You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful..
I think the only thing that I really thought about, I am always every year thinking about how I can get better, how my stuff can get better, how our ….
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your ….
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything..
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them..
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..
She taught me that it's ok to let down your guard and allow your players to get to know you. They don't care how much you know until they know how mu….
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time..
You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired..
Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them..