If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Shout praise and whisper criticism.
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.
It doesn’t cost anything to be nice to people.
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things – this is the epitome of what a team is.
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach.
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
You can pick captains, but you can’t pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team.
Be what ya is, ’cause if ya be what you ain’t, ya ain’t what ya is.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
Anytime you get an award as a coach, you’ve got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn’t your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.