Coaching Quotes

621 Coaching quotes by 295 unique authors

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much… — Larry Bird
What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better. — John Brady
You get what you tolerate! — John Brady
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. — John Brady
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. — John Brady
Criticize on defense and encourage on offense. — John Brady
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing. — Hubie Brown
In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player. — Hubie Brown
No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're… — Hubie Brown
Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team. — Hubie Brown
When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before. — Unknown Author
We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out. — Jim Calhoun
We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of… — Jim Calhoun
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you… — John Calipari
We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it. — Unknown Author
Bad shooters are always open — Pete Carril
Coaching is preparation. — Pete Carril
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline. — Pete Carril
A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you… — Pete Carril
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
Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after… — Pete Carril
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you… — Pete Carril
I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will… — Denny Crum
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly
Offense is spacing and spacing is offense. — Chuck Daly

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