Basketball Coaching Quotes

Basketball Coaching Quote of the day

Put the Team Before Yourself.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Practice to beat the best.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Coaching is preparation.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Basketball is sharing.

When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

No rebounds, no rings.

To be a team, you must be a family.

Be quick without hurrying.

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 key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

All really successful coaches have a system.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

You must have a passion to coach.

Leadership starts at the top.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

You get what you tolerate!

Players will never do more than you demand.

The team is an extension of the coach.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

Every day you teach attitude.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.