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First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.
Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.
It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt
The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their growth
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.
Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.
It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.
We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart.
Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
Even though I am getting my coaching badges, I am more into mentoring.
Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.
We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).
Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!
It's really a shame for the coaching profession that it's so volatile.
I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.
Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.
Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.
I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.
Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.
Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.
We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.
Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.
What I do for myself stays within me, what I do for others lasts a lifetime.
I'm one of those people who tells my wife, "No coaching from the sidelines."