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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
Sep 10, 2025
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.
A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.
A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.
Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to
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.
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
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.
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.
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.
Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.
Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.
Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.