Quotes on Great Coach

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

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.

After a while, your coaching development ceases to be about finding newer ways to organize practice. In other words, you soon stop collecting drills. Your development as a coach shifts to observing how great coaches teach, motivate, lead, and drive players to performances at higher and higher levels

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

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.

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.

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

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. _x000D_ People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. _x000D_ Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.