Occupation: Basketball Coach Birth: September 20, 1917 Death: October 28, 2006
Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the ….
You can't win without the ball..
I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. ….
I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear..
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up..
I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?.
I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole..
Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup..
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest pl….
Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential..
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love..
You handle animals. You deal with people..
I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different..
If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge..
Everything can happen in the playoffs..
All records are made to be broken..
You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where ma….
If you're keeping score, win!.
Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court..
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches.
Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win..