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Coaches build teams, parents build players.
Oct 1, 2025
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.
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.
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
I was in the right place at the right time.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.