Best Basketball Leadership Quotes

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.

A leader can’t make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

I’m here to be a leader and show younger people the way.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

If you are going to be a leader, you’re not going to please everybody. You got to hold people accountable, even if you have that moment of being uncomfortable.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

I’m still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I’ll settle for persistence

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That’s it. I don’t have any other goals

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It’s not what you say as much as what they absorb.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

It isn’t about what you do, but how you do it

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

I can’t make every decision for you. I don’t have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

I always mean what I say, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.

A leader’s job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers’ sense of commitment.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

A lion never roars after a kill.

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

If you don’t feel you have something to prove every day, you’ll never improve