Top 94 Quotes About Basketball Coach
#1. I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
Nick Offerman
#2. How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Kathryn Stockett
#3. They grabbed me and up I went. My shriek probably could've been heard in England. It certainly brought the basketball coach and the rest of the boys running in the belief that someone was being brutally murdered.
I don't think Mrs. Green will be picking me for the squad.
Joss Stirling
#4. John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren't a failure until you start to blame.
Carol S. Dweck
#5. Oh, you know. I'm queen of the rumor mill. It seems like there's been a new rumor about me every week since I got here. Comes with being the new girl, I guess. Have you heard the one where I seduced the basketball coach? That's a personal favorite.
Cynthia Hand
#6. I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
Tony Dorsett
#7. So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.
Colin Powell
#8. I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.
Don Adams
#9. I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
Alonzo Mourning
#10. The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
Merlin Olsen
#11. I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
Mike Krzyzewski
#12. As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
Brian Tracy
#13. The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
Red Auerbach
#14. I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Tim McGraw
#15. In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.
Charles Mingus
#16. Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.
Shaquille O'Neal
#17. You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
Steve Nash
#18. I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.
Dean Smith
#19. A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
Michael Josephson
#20. If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
Adolph Rupp
#21. Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.
Mike Krzyzewski
#22. X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do
Hubie Brown
#23. In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.
Allen Iverson
#25. Flip's a player's coach, and I do know one thing, he motivates better than anybody I know. His system is very oriented around the point guard. He and Steph (Marbury) had a great relationship when Steph was in Minnesota.
Kevin Garnett
#26. I've had a desire to coach for years. This was something I felt I should do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#27. Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
Jim Valvano
#28. What is there about basketball that makes Larry Bird or Lenny Wilkens want to coach after their playing careers are done?
George Vecsey
#29. Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!
Shaquille O'Neal
#30. People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.
Bill Russell
#31. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Red Auerbach
#32. I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
#33. I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
Kyrie Irving
#34. Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
Jack Ramsay
#35. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.
Mike McConathy
#36. Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Dick Motta
#37. Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
John Calipari
#38. I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.
Phil Jackson
#39. My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.
Matthew Stafford
#42. What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
George Halas
#43. What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.
Karl Malone
#44. When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
George Raveling
#45. The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
Hubie Brown
#46. On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
Winfrey Sanderson
#47. I've always tried to coach people the way I would like to be coached; positively and encouragingly rather than with criticism and fear ... I've tried to be as fair as possible.
Tony Dungy
#48. Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.
George Vecsey
#49. Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
Jack Ramsay
#50. Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
Norm Sloan
#51. I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."
Frank Deford
#52. It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Don Meyer
#53. We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.
Mychal Thompson
#54. Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.
Jerry Krause
#55. Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
Kevin Love
#56. A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
John Wooden
#57. Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
Dean Smith
#58. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;
Red Auerbach
#59. President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.
Conan O'Brien
#60. Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie
#61. I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
Rick Pitino
#62. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.
Bill Walton
#63. I think I am upsetting the coach.
Yao Ming
#64. As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Don Meyer
#65. Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.
Romeo Miller
#66. The team is an extension of the coach.
Don Meyer
#67. My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
Yao Ming
#68. A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
#69. I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.
Hannibal Buress
#70. The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.
Dean Smith
#71. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
#72. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thomas Perez
#73. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#74. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#75. I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'
LeBron James
#76. I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.
Shane Battier
#77. I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It doesn't matter to me. If they want him here, he'll be here. If he wants to come, he'll come, he'll coach and we'll go from there.
Kobe Bryant
#78. True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
Morgan Wootten
#79. You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
Oscar Robertson
#80. The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
David Maraniss
#81. In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
Pat Riley
#82. You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Don Meyer
#83. Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
George Karl
#84. I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
Mike Krzyzewski
#85. Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's Coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
Bobby Knight
#86. 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.
Frank Layden
#87. I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players
Chuck Daly
#88. My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.
Grant Hill
#89. Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
Bill Gates
#90. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
#91. 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
#92. He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby.
Shaquille O'Neal
#93. So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
Kevin Garnett
#94. Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
Chuck Daly
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