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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things
this is the epitome of what a team is.
Have character, don't be one.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
We can always do it better.
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
The team is an extension of the coach.
To be a team, you must be a family.
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
Every coach should be recording games to watch ... use your VCR.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
To those who much has been given, much is expected.
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program
players not learning.
