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Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.Collection: Basketball
Hearing improves with PRAISE!Collection: Basketball
We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.Collection: Basketball
Are you any relation to your brother Marv?Collection: Basketball
In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran itCollection: Basketball
I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for meCollection: Basketball
Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.Collection: Basketball
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning gamesCollection: Basketball
I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.Collection: Basketball
The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.Collection: Basketball
I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.Collection: Basketball
Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.Collection: Basketball
To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.Collection: Basketball
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.Collection: Basketball
In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.Collection: Basketball
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.Collection: Basketball
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.Collection: Basketball
The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.Collection: Basketball
While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind...Collection: Basketball
I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.Collection: Basketball
Champions have no off-season.Collection: Basketball
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.Collection: Basketball
They took one from us last time, so now we took one from themCollection: Basketball
The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the courtCollection: Basketball
X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to doCollection: Basketball
No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.Collection: Basketball
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.Collection: Basketball
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.Collection: Basketball
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.Collection: Basketball
Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.Collection: Basketball
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.Collection: Basketball
If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideasCollection: Basketball
Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.Collection: Basketball
People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.Collection: Basketball
There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.Collection: Basketball
On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does.Collection: Basketball
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.Collection: Basketball
Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?Collection: Basketball
Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.Collection: Basketball
We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.Collection: Basketball
People will say you should quit running if you're a slow runner. Or you should quit basketball if you can't dribble with your left hand. I don't agree with that. If you're not a very good reader at 14, nobody thinks you should stop reading.Collection: Basketball
My biggest thrill came the night Elgin Baylor and I combined for 73 points at Madison Square Garden. Elgin had 71 of them.Collection: Basketball
If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.Collection: Basketball
The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy is definitely a smart guy, knows what he's doing. He's a basketball genius. So to downplay that and disrespect that, I thought it was stereotyping him way too much.Collection: Basketball
And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!Collection: Basketball
First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.Collection: Basketball
Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.Collection: Basketball
I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.Collection: Basketball
I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.Collection: Basketball