Quotes on Basketball Coach

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.