The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot. — Rick Majerus Copy Share Image
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it. — P. J. Carlesimo Copy Share Image
For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out… — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven. — Norm Sloan Copy Share Image
I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last… — Norm Sloan Copy Share Image
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game… — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as… — Norm Sloan Copy Share Image
Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will… — Jim Harrick Copy Share Image
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else. — Tex Winter Copy Share Image
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player. — Hubie Brown Copy Share Image
The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline. — Pete Carril Copy Share Image
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett Copy Share Image
I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing. — Hubie Brown Copy Share Image
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. — John Brady Copy Share Image
We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
