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There are no short cuts. If you want to do something special, there's a serious price to pay. There's no way around it.
Coaching is like flying an airplane, there is going to be a lot of turbulence, but your job is to land the plane safely.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
When I left college ball, I think I was prepared to coach a team, but I don't think I was prepared to help the team win.
It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.
Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.
If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.
I don't believe in curfews, because you can't treat men like they were boys without forfeiting a certain level of trust.
I give myself 24 hours after a loss. After that, I'm totally on to the next game. But for 24 hours, I'm not a happy man.
We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control
If I'm going to be grinding, then I want to coach. If I'm not going to be coaching, I want to be semi-retired, at least.
If I was playing a game of Sorry or checkers with my nine-year-old, I hate losing. That's just my makeup and personality.
When things don't go your way, the day after you wake up and try to get better and be as good as you can be the next day.
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.
All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.
If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.
So kids that have pro potential and want to take a loan so that their families don't have to deal with it, why can't you?
You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality
There's not going to be a whole lot of change, to be honest with you. I don't think there's a reason to fix what's broke.
Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.
The officials have a tough job to do. But that's what they're hired to do and that's what they spend all their time doing.
No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are
They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.
When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.
There are always those times when you're going to be down. It's how you step through it that makes you the person you are.
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself
Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle
That really makes you feel good when guys are using some of your terminology and some of your plays in a different country.
Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.
I think anybody confusing a system with a reason for success is making a huge mistake. Systems don't win games. Players do.
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.
The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.
We guard the shooter. A lot of guys shoot way behind the 3-point line. We guard where the shooter is, not where the line is.
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
Sometimes it's not bad to hurt. Sometimes you don't want things until you get hurt. We got hurt today, let's see what we do.