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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Sep 29, 2025
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.
College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.
A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
One man cannot make a team.
Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
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.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.