If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.
Interpretation
To achieve greatness, you must embody the mindset and behaviors of a champion.
This quote by Red Auerbach emphasizes that becoming a champion is not just about skills or talent; it also requires a specific mindset and attitude. To truly succeed, you must visualize yourself as a champion, take actions that align with that identity, and present yourself in a way that reflects confidence and determination.
In practice
This quote can be shared during motivational speeches to inspire athletes.
To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.
I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Most bodybuilders only have a hazy notion of what they want to look like. They do not say, 'I am going to be a winner.' The negative impulses around the gym can be incredible. I would hear bodybuilders complaining, 'Oh,no! Not another set!' That destroyed them. I have always believed that if you're training for nothing, you're wasting your effort!
I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.
People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills
What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live - with your self-respect alive and growing.
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