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I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
Sep 10, 2025
Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron's dad. It's about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there's music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.
In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.
Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated
I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
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.
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.
The most important thing is team morale.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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?
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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.
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.