Quotes on Basketball Leadership

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.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

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

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

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

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

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.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.