Top 100 Basketball Coaching Quotes

#1. 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.

Frosty Westering

Basketball Coaching Quotes #974122
#2. I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1159339
#3. I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Lenny Wilkens

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1133479
#4. Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Pat Summitt

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1131023
#5. Leadership starts at the top.

Morgan Wootten

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1130560
#6. Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1093242
#7. Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1088058
#8. Be quick without hurrying.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1061102
#9. To be a team, you must be a family.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1060721
#10. Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Vince Lombardi

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1041810
#11. Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

Tom Landry

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1035515
#12. The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Rick Pitino

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1029950
#13. Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

Adolph Rupp

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1007694
#14. I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

Vince Lombardi

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1170583
#15. Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #953813
#16. When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #916122
#17. Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #912284
#18. When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

Terry Bowden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #888560
#19. Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

Hubie Brown

Basketball Coaching Quotes #873482
#20. He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.

Adolph Rupp

Basketball Coaching Quotes #864583
#21. If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

Pat Riley

Basketball Coaching Quotes #853195
#22. Basketball is sharing.

Phil Jackson

Basketball Coaching Quotes #847848
#23. You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #836593
#24. Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

Henry Iba

Basketball Coaching Quotes #820489
#25. In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

Hubie Brown

Basketball Coaching Quotes #817106
#26. Players will never do more than you demand.

Jimmy Tillette

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1324475
#27. The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1644949
#28. If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

John Brady

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1622207
#29. Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.

Jim Harrick

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1602488
#30. Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1558131
#31. You better have great practices.

Al McGuire

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1552256
#32. Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Larry Shyatt

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1536637
#33. Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1504096
#34. I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1501587
#35. The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1499766
#36. The key statistic is still to get to the foul line.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1498705
#37. Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Rick Pitino

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1487187
#38. It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1413268
#39. You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #796552
#40. And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

Robert Montgomery Knight

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1276571
#41. What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1237301
#42. Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Vince Lombardi

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1235891
#43. Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1231979
#44. The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Rick Pitino

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1226382
#45. Coaching is preparation.

Pete Carril

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1201447
#46. It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Red Auerbach

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1195593
#47. Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

Larry Bird

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1187488
#48. There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

Bill Laimbeer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1185055
#49. We travel in Duke stuff ... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1178614
#50. You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Bill Parcells

Basketball Coaching Quotes #1174448
#51. Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #173677
#52. Every day you teach attitude.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #393802
#53. You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #375727
#54. When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #336737
#55. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #335240
#56. Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #332894
#57. 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.

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #329077
#58. The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

Basketball Coaching Quotes #276150
#59. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

Basketball Coaching Quotes #270522
#60. Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.

Jerry Krause

Basketball Coaching Quotes #264332
#61. The team is an extension of the coach.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #259777
#62. As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #223479
#63. Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #211136
#64. I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #410995
#65. What does this program/team need this week?

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #161868
#66. Great shooters are one dribble guys.

Rick Majerus

Basketball Coaching Quotes #156784
#67. Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #145997
#68. We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #145861
#69. I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

Steve Alford

Basketball Coaching Quotes #142905
#70. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #132605
#71. The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #128797
#72. All really successful coaches have a system.

Jim Valvano

Basketball Coaching Quotes #123457
#73. Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #81705
#74. You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #59699
#75. The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.

LeBron James

Basketball Coaching Quotes #38399
#76. It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #648923
#77. If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Pat Summitt

Basketball Coaching Quotes #795552
#78. I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #789589
#79. I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Coaching Quotes #771865
#80. The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Rick Majerus

Basketball Coaching Quotes #760408
#81. Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

John Brady

Basketball Coaching Quotes #760370
#82. Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Chuck Daly

Basketball Coaching Quotes #759417
#83. I've always believed in quickness over strength and size.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #747828
#84. Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #723688
#85. Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Chuck Daly

Basketball Coaching Quotes #718673
#86. Practice to beat the best.

Dick Bennett

Basketball Coaching Quotes #669851
#87. Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

Basketball Coaching Quotes #659693
#88. When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #655083
#89. Bad shooters are always open

Pete Carril

Basketball Coaching Quotes #24192
#90. It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Pat Riley

Basketball Coaching Quotes #619554
#91. Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Dean Smith

Basketball Coaching Quotes #580679
#92. I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Bo Ryan

Basketball Coaching Quotes #578711
#93. Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

Norm Sloan

Basketball Coaching Quotes #571361
#94. Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Pat Summitt

Basketball Coaching Quotes #564460
#95. It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #563598
#96. Do passing drills that come from your offense.

John Wooden

Basketball Coaching Quotes #524743
#97. When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball Coaching Quotes #522236
#98. Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #507905
#99. Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

Don Meyer

Basketball Coaching Quotes #483429
#100. Hearing improves with PRAISE!

Mark Gottfried

Basketball Coaching Quotes #480238

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