Basketball Quotes - Page 36

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 be a salesman and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

Your problems never cease, they just change.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

When you got people behind you, you can do whatever.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

Chance favors those in motion.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Being an All-Star is everything.

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.