Browsing Topic 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.

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

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.

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

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

Never mistake activity for achievement.

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.

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

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

A lion never roars after a kill.

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no such thing as life in-between.

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