A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one.
Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity.
Make Winning an Attitude.
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
If I aint happy, nobody’s happy.
We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.
You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.
Put the Team Before Yourself.
If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
I didn’t say a lot. I didn’t throw anything. That’s not my style. I did think about it though.
I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.
If it doesn’t bother you, it won’t bother them.
Sit up straight, listen and participate.
With attitude, you can determine your own performance.
The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’