Best Basketball Coaching Sayings
208 Basketball Coaching quotes by 55 unique authors
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Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.
— Henry Iba
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Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
— Henry Iba
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Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
— Phil Jackson
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Basketball is sharing.
— Phil Jackson
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to…
— Phil Jackson
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Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is…
— Phil Jackson
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The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.
— Unknown Author
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Offense at Indiana is not equal opportunity. Those players who shoot best are going to shoot most. It is important that every player know his…
— Bobby Knight
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Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
— Bobby Knight
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As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense…
— Bobby Knight
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I think that to stop an offense, you must go to the heart of that offense. If it is a particular move, a screen, the…
— Bobby Knight
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When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the…
— Bobby Knight
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A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
— Bobby Knight
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Practice structure determines success.
— Bobby Knight
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Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.
— Jerry Krause
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Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.
— Unknown Author
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If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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