Basketball coach Quotes

The team is an extension of the coach.

— Don Meyer

A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

— Bill Maher

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

— Don Meyer

The most important thing is team morale.

— Dean Smith

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

— Don Meyer

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

— Chuck Daly

One man cannot make a team.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

— John Wooden

Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

— Tom Izzo

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

— John Wooden

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

— Pat Summitt

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

— Jim Valvano

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

— Mike Krzyzewski

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

— Red Auerbach

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

— Nastia Liukin

When a leader takes responsibility for his own actions and mistakes, he not only sets a good example, he shows a healthy…

— Mike Krzyzewski

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

— Rick Pitino

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

— Rick Pitino

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your…

— Paul Westphal

My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with…

— Stan Van Gundy

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

— Don Meyer

I think a lot of people in New York are businessmen or Wall Street guys by day and underground basketball coaches by…

— David Lee

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it…

— Larry Bird

In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told…

— Paul Beatty

“Sam Pickett, English teacher and former basketball coach at Willow Creek High School, scrounged for sleep in his tangled bed. He was…

— Stanley Gordon West

I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me.…

— Don Adams

Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who…

— Megan Fox

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of…

— Alonzo Mourning

The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in…

— Terry Fox

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any…

— Pat Summitt

“UCLA basketball coach John Wooden told players who scored to give a smile, wink, or nod to the player who gave them…

— John C. Maxwell

“Coach McConaughy grabbed the whistle swinging from a chain around his neck and blew it. “Seats, team!” Coach considered teaching tenthgrade biology…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal…

— Dick Bennett

The risk of failure is a very personal thing. One of the quotes I like, I think this came from the famous…

— Les Wexner

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as…

— Billy Bob Thornton

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

— Pat Riley

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

— Sara Bareilles

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

— Red Auerbach

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

— Mike Krzyzewski

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

— Chuck Daly