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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You
may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't
play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
-Babe ruth
Some people dream of success while others wake up and achieve it.
I am never content with average because average is just as close to the top as
it is to the bottom.
There is magic in fighting battles beyond endurance.
- Million Dollar Baby
The biggest mistake an athlete can make is to be afraid to make one.
What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.
- George Halas
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have
to be obsessed in some way.
- Pat Riley
The difference between winners and losers is that losers go out thinking they're
going to win, and winners go out knowing they're going to win.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney
Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no
one more important than the other.
-Coach Norman Dale
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard...
is what makes it great.
- A League of Their Own
Sometimes the most important things you learn in life, are the things you learn
on the court.
When you pull on that jersey, the name on the front is a hell a lot more
important than the one on the back.
- Herb Brooks
Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but
legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong.
- The Sandlot
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
- Lowell Thomas
I live for the hours of practice, the coaches who push us and the teammates who
believe in each other.
It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that noboby sees but you.
- Million Dollar Baby
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they
are.
- Ara Parashegian
Work hard, but do not forget to play, have fun, and really enjoy it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun
for you.
- A.J. Kitt
You said we're a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person
triumphs, we all triumph.
- Coach Carter
All I know is when we win a game, it's a team win. When we lose a game, it's a
team loss.
- Coach Morris Buttermaker
Sometimes the only way to tell it's practice, is by what you're wearing.
It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you
get up.
- Vince Lombardi
If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be
the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of
the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.
-Coach Norman Dale
Working together works.
- Dr. Rob Gilbert
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
-Author unknown
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at
practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
Good, better, best; never let it rest
till your good is better and your better is best.
Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second.
Gold medals don't make champions...hard work does.
Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better.
A winner is a failure who was willing to fail and get up,
fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up, and win.
- Pete Zafra
Good, better, best. Never rest till good be better and better be best!
Success doesn't come to you...you go to it.
- Marva Collins
You can't possibly make your shot if you're thinking about all the possible ways
you could miss.
Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch court, the space
between your ears.
- Bobby Jones
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.
- Knute K. Rockne
Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours,
weeks, months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance
itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
- T. Alan Armstrong
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his
contribution to praise the skills of the others.
- Norman Shidle
Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team.
Buchholz and Roth
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
- H.E. Luccock
I don't play my five best, i play my best five.
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
- Zig Ziglar
A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
- John Capuzzi
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something.
Don't just stand there, make it happen.
- Lee Lacocca
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
- Lowell Thomas
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Marcus Aurelius
You get the best out of others when you give the best of youself.
- Harry Firestone
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- William Faulkner
Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while
standing still.
- Linda Brakeall
Nobody will think you're somebody if you don't think so yourself.
- African-American proverb
The impossible is often untried.
- Unknown
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination,
this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else
happened.
- Wilma Rudolph
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
- Mike Singletary
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals.
I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.
- Mia Hamm
1 point, 10 assists.
- Adidas
Doing your best is more important than being the best.
- Shannon Miller
Treat a person as she is, and she will remain as she is. Treat her as she could
be, and she will become what she should be.
- Jimmy Johnson
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Winning isn't always finishing first. Sometimes winning is just finishing.
- Manuel Diotte
Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players.
Dictator lead through fear--good coaches do not.
- John Wooden
Champions believe in themselves even if no one else does.
- Unknown
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
- Anonymous
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate
you, something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out.
There's no such thing as a life in-between.
- Pat Riley
Whenever you do something, act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever you do and wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes
available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what
you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you
have to convince.
- Vincent Lombardi
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
- Helen Keller
What's important as a leader isnot what happens when you are there. It's what
happens when you're not there.
- Unknown
Leaders are like eagles, they don't flock; you find them one at a time.
- Unknown
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It
is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
- John Whitmore
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Unknown
It's not the job you do, it's how you do the job.
- Unknown
Keep shooting the basketball! It will require many more
practice shots than a hundred, but sooner or later, you may
have your "hundred and first" shot, and it may be the shot that wins
the game!
Dick Barnett was a player who emphatically demonstrated the virtues of discipline. He played basketball every day of his last three years of high school: 1, 095 straight days. Sometimes he played from nine in the morning until midnight. He played basketball while his friends went to the senior prom. BUT HE GOT TO DANCE IN THE NBA! (Excerpted from VALUES OF THE GAME by Bill Bradley.
Most look up and climb
the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one.
Did is a word of achievement,
Won't is a word of retreat,
Might is a word of bereavement,
Can't is a word of defeat,
Ought is a word of duty,
Try is a word each hour,
Will is a word of beauty,
Can is a word of power.
Author: Unknown
"If you want a view from the top, practice, not parties, will take you
where you want to go."....NBA great Kevin Johnson
RULES FROM HALL OF FAME COACH PETE NEWELL:
1. Get better shots than your opponent and get more of those better shots.
2. Look to run every possession.
3. Handle the ball with sureness.
4. Be hard to guard. Help each other get open.
5. Get fouled. Make more than your opponent attempts.
6. Offensive board coverage.
7. Transition and talk; defensive fast break.
8. Know who you are guarding, his number, & his game.
9. Ball Pressure; early help and quick recovery. Ubiquitous.
10. Shut down a scorer in the post; "No Threes to a Three".
11. Shot pressure; change or alter.
12. Smart fouls only.
13. B.O.P.C.R.O. - Block out, Pursue, Chin, Rebound, Outlet
"I always talked to my players about today. It's the only day that
matters."...John Wooden.
Keep shooting the basketball! It will require many more practice shots than a
hundred, but sooner or later, you may
have your "hundred and first" shot, and it may be the shot that wins
the game!
GOLDEN RULES FOR LIVING
1. If you open it, close it.
2. If you turn it on, turn it off.
3. If you unlock it, lock it.
4. If you break it, admit it.
5. If you can’t fix it, call in someone who can.
6. If you borrow it, return it.
7. If you value it, take care of it.
8. If you make a mess, clean it up.
9. If you move it, put it back.
10. If it belongs to someone else, get permission to use it.
11. If you don’t know how to operate it, leave it alone.
12. If it’s none of your business, don’t ask questions.
I had rather do and not promise, than promise and not do.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you know.
Who passed the ball when you scored?
The best players help others to be best players.
Don't tell me how good you are, let me find it out.
"It is a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it."
- Somerset Maugham
The race is not always won by the fastest runner but sometimes by those who just
keep on running.