Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: July 10, 1930
A coach's job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win..
Coaching is preparation..
Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character..
Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence ….
Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made.
If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at you, you've lost him. If you yell at a kid and he gets mad at himself, then you have something..
Bad shooters are always open.
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently..
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself..
If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts….
Coaches win practices, players win games.
A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself..
I believe the objective of coaching is winning with integrity..
Starting out as a junior varsity coach in high school you pick up things along the way and put them all together. Something has gotta come out of it.….
Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go ….
Sometimes I feel tomorrow is the last. Some days I feel like I can go for years. I think my goal is that I enjoy coaching. I don't think I want to st….
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distan….
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline..
Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to ove….
The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot.
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them..