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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
Sep 17, 2025
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy respect for people on his team
People want to be part of something bigger than they are.
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.
A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
It isn't about what you do, but how you do it
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.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
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 what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
There is no such thing as life in-between.
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
One man cannot make a team.
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.