Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them
Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.
I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
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 offensive limitations. It is also important that a player know who the best shooter is on the team. When a passer has the option of passing to two players, I expect him to get the ball to the best shooter. I continually stop practice and ask players who the best shooter is and I expect them to know. It is important that you get the ball to your best shooter.
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Positive wish: 'The sun will come out tomorrow.' Negative reality: 'Yeah, and it will flash brand-new daylight on the same old mess unless something is done to clean it up.
Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.
I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.
It is better to anticipate than to react.
I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.
Everybody hears, but few listen.
You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
A coach should never be afraid to ask questions of anyone he could learn from.
Offense is not equal opportunity
