Quotes on Player To 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.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

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.

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

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

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

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

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.