Top 44 Quotes For Your Basketball Coach
#1. 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
#2. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.
John Wooden
#6. The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.
Dean Smith
#7. 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
#8. A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
#9. My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
Yao Ming
#10. The team is an extension of the coach.
Don Meyer
#11. Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.
Jerry Krause
#12. 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
#13. I think I am upsetting the coach.
Yao Ming
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
Dean Smith
#20. A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
John Wooden
#21. 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
#22. Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.
Romeo Miller
#23. Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them
Chuck Daly
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players
Chuck Daly
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. As Pat Riley, the basketball coach, said, Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse.
Brian Tracy
#35. I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
Mike Krzyzewski
#36. 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
#37. I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
Mike Krzyzewski
#38. You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Don Meyer
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
Michael Josephson
#43. You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity
Steve Nash
#44. Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Dick Motta
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