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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.
My dad has coached a long time, so there aren't too many conversations in my family that haven't centered around basketball.
Discipline is the highest form of love. If you really love someone, you have to give them the level of discipline they need.
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots
Don’t brush anything under the rug. Don’t point fingers or do the blame game. A team is a family, and we’re in this together.
When I see a league with a lot of change and turnover, yes, there's a lot of big narratives out there, but I see opportunity.
I'm 50 years old and been a college coach for 23 years, but after 12 years, no matter where you are, there are ups and downs.
Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.
I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
We don't teach player development in that way, to be able to try to trick the officials or make sounds or jerk your head back.
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself
I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.
You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.
I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that but I know that's just American society.
It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.
In every contest, there comes a moment that separates winning from losing. The true warrior understands and seizes that moment.
From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.
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.
I've had opportunities. But I'm happy at Utah. I can do a lot of nice things and I love the kids. We work hard and we have fun.
I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.
As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.
Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.
Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.
When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.
It's hard to be successful over the long term if you're not unified and there's not that synergy between coach and front office.
It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.
The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
It's so much fun to dream in your driveway. I had an old wooden backboard in my driveway. That's where my friends and I hung out.
If you're a competitor, this is what you want. You want all of the games to have meaning, context and to be the best competition.
Each game, each series, there's so many different things that are going on and you have to find different ways to impact winning.
I know every year what my players get and what courses they get them in. I get a report every semester. What course. What grades.
If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.
Every kid will tell you that they want you to be real, but that's until you keep it real with them. Then they don't want it real.
My life, even as a college student, has all been through the NCAA, and I'm telling you there's so much good that comes out of it.
I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.
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.