Player Quotes
- How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate — Brad Stevens
- I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots — Doc Rivers
- Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers
- Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth — Doc Rivers
- Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates — Don Meyer
- Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team — Jack Ramsay
- Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions — Jack Ramsay
- The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players — Jack Ramsay
- A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared — Jack Ramsay
- Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy
- Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group — Jeff Van Gundy
- I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble — Jeff Van Gundy
- Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better — Jeff Van Gundy
- You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed — Jeff Van Gundy
- Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that — John Calipari
- Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player — Mike Krzyzewski
- Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players… — Pat Riley
- Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
- You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
- One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives — Rick Majerus
- We want men here, not just players. Players are a dime a dozen — Tom Izzo
- Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo
- You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams — Tom Thibodeau
- In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes — Tom Thibodeau
- As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more — Billy Donovan