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Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that
Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.
You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in. It's important that people discuss things.
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control
I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential
I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.
The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.
In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do
The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive
Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.
I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players.
I liked the idea of being one of the foundations for Coach Bennett's program and trying to revive UVa basketball.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.
We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.
We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.
The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them
As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.
The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.
Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
Can't nobody [mess] with me. I'm like toilet paper, Pampers and toothpaste. I'm definitely proven to be effective.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
Everybody's doing well and everybody's achieving their goals so it's great to see Canadian basketball on the rise.