Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection. — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them. — Rick Majerus Copy Share Image
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player. — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you. — Henry Iba Copy Share Image
The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
To be successful in anything, you have to have a passion for it, and that leads to being enthusiastic and demanding. I… — Jeff Van Gundy Copy Share Image
At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard,… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it.… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with… — Bo Schembechler Copy Share Image
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The… — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal… — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80… — Ralph Miller Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true,… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share Image
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume… — Ralph Miller Copy Share Image
I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake,… — Jim Harrick Copy Share Image
