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You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.
Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.
Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are, and your reputetion is who people think you re.
If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.
Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better.
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.
Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
I met Tiger Woods when he was younger. He's amazing - obviously technically, but his mental approach, too. He's really something.
The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.
Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.
In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.
I don't believe in looking back. If you make a decision that you think is the proper one at a time, then that's the correct decision.
Whether you know it or not, whether you like it or not, the habits you are developing now will be with you for the rest of your life.
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.
Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.
Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group - that's teamwork.
The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.
Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.
Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.
Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be.
Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life - early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it.
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.
Being yourself; not acting. You therefore can function near your own level of competence. Satisfy you own expectations rather than those of others.
We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at time. That's the only way it happens-and when it happens, it lasts.
I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.