Basketball coaching Quotes · Page 5

The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

— Dean Smith

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

— Don Meyer

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

— Vince Lombardi

Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.

— Mark Gottfried

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

— Joe Gibbs

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

— Jim Valvano

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

— Ara Parseghian

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

— Tom Landry

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

— Hubie Brown

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

— John Brady

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

— Don Meyer

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

— Dick Bennett

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

I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.

— Pete Carril

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

— Hubie Brown

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the…

— Rick Pitino

Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

— Mike Krzyzewski

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

— Dean Smith

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

— John Calipari

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they here.

— Red Auerbach

All really successful coaches have a system.

— Jim Valvano

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

— Don Meyer

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

— Don Meyer

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

— Dean Smith

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand

— Vince Lombardi

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

— Tara VanDerveer

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

— Dean Smith

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

— Pat Summitt

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

— Dick Motta

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

— Billy Donovan

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

— Rick Majerus

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

— Pat Riley

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

— Dick Bennett

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

— Don Meyer

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

— Red Auerbach

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

— Pat Summitt

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

— John Brady

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

— Vince Lombardi

Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

— Jim Harrick