You can pick captains, but you can’t pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
We sure didn’t play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don’t want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald’s between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Have character, don’t be one.
As a coach, you’re just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You’ve got to find that edge.
We can always do it better.
If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent’s ball handler.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.