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52 Basketball Coach Quotes

I think I can help others just by my example.

Think Help Example Other
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Always Going Got Great
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Class is more important than a game.
Class Game Important More
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I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

Around Want House Huddle
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.

Always Cows Dad Dairy
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Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.

Challenges Combination Competition Disease
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Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

About Because Classroom Excited
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Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.

Being Done Fun Giving
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.

Come Court End Game
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

Although Being Demand Think
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

Ability Because Commitment Counts
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

Acquire Afraid Face Failure
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A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Leader People Position Successful
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

Confrontation Truth
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

Leadership Singular Organization Plural
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Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Imagination Deal Winning
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You should do things because of what your expectations are of yourself.

You Expectations Yourself
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You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

Work Relationships Friendship Love
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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

Leader Responsibility Mistakes Team
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Growth creates complexity, which requires simplicity.

Growth Complexity Simplicity
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You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

You Listen Moments Feel
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Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

Courage Leader Ability Sway
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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

You Yesterday Today
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You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Team Games Need
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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Players Teamates Enthusiasm Passion
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You start developing a championship attitude by, first of all, telling kids that they are really good and that they have the potential to become better.

Attitude Kids Good Potential
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

Leader Sets up Later
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Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

Goals Realistic Attainable Team
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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

Leader Angry Weak Emotions
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Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

Leaders Reliable Consistent
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It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

Courage Decisions Live
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With accomplishments comes confidence and with confidence comes belief. It has to be in that order.

Accomplishments Confidence Belief
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To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Teamwork Beauty Sport Selfless
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Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself

Goal Win Play
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

Champions Practice Excellence
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Hunger Success Excellence
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The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Truth People Rules Decisions
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Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Season Journey Lifetime
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Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

Play Practice Team
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Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership Evolving Position
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You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if all of us are together.

Team Achieve Person Weaker
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In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Teams Believe Rules Standards
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Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Leader Respect Authority Trust
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Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

Discipline Manner Time
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As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

Leader Complete Mission
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A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

Leader Knowledge Team Action
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Courage and confidence are what decision making is all about.

Courage Confidence Decision
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Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

Worry Losing Think Winning
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In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

Leadership Words Trust
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Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication
Teamwork Begins Ends Communication
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