You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
We can always do it better.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
