Coaching Quotes - Page 8

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

You get what you tolerate!

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.

Players will never do more than you demand.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

All really successful coaches have a system.

In the future, those who are not coaches will not be promoted.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

I never drop a player I only make changes.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

It's not too far; it just seems like it is.

Coaching is about not being afraid to be challenged and, above all, trying to enjoy the experience.

For me coaching was all about being involved, and taking the best qualities from the coaches I had as a player and moulding them into my own personality.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

You must have a passion to coach.

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.

People don't choose their calling, it chooses them.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.