Coaching Quotes - Page 10

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

The team is an extension of the coach.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Coaching is helping people discover what they could not discover on their own, so they can become what they want to become.

You can never be fit enough for this game.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

You better have great practices.

We were over-whelming underdogs.

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

You can never have enough talent.

Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.