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Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
You would never find a coach in any sport more giving of his time than Coach Parcells to other New York coaches.
Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.
In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.
There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
The NBA made a big move to become more stylish and business-oriented a few years back, and it's made a big change.
When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.
We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.
The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.
One of my college roommates was into The Police, and I got to like them. But I hear one of the guys left the band.
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.
Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.
When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Rondo's a great player, and most teams look at it that anytime you have a chance to get a great player, you do it.
I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
As far as LeBron James, to me, he's on his way to carving out the very best career that's ever happened in the NBA.
I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.
I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility
Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made
There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.
If you want to be a Champion, you've got to feel like one, you've got to act like one, you've got to look like one.
I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.
When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.
I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else.
Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions
You can't have mental breakdowns defensively because teams like Golden State and Cleveland will make you pay dearly.