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We can always do it better.
Every day you teach attitude.
Have character, don't be one.
To be a team, you must be a family.
Shout praise and whisper criticism.
Shared suffering makes a team a team.
The team is an extension of the coach.
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
Let your players know that you love them.
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.