Inspirational basketball coaching quotations for basketball coaches to use to improve the mental game of their basketball team

1. Michael Jordan, Magic, and myself all
learned how to play the game in
college programs that emphasized the
team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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2. Some say you have to use your five
best players, but I found out you win
with the five that fit together best as a
team.
Red Auerbach
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3. Bottom line, you’re either a risk
taker, or your not, and if you don’t
take risks, you’ll never win big.
Geno Auriemma
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4. Champions have no off-season.
Dan Bailey
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5. We cannot accept in victory what
we would not accept in defeat.
Dick Bennett
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6. We are free to choose our actions,
but we are not free to choose the
consequences of our actions.
Stephen Covey
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7. If you’re going to have to beg them
to play, it’s not going to work.
Chuck Daly
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8. I never think about missing a free
throw. All that goes through my mind
when I’m at the line is seeing the ball
go through the bottom of the net.
Brad Daugherty
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9. The time outside of the games
season is known as the
improvement season.
Kevin Eastman
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10. Players play, tough players win.
Tom Izzo
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11. You have to play so hard that it
hurts!
Kyle Johnson
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12. If you accept the expectations of
others, especially negative ones, then
you will never change the outcome.
Michael Jordan
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13. The mental is to the physical as four
is to one.
Bob Knight
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14. As a coach, you can have discipline
and be demanding without being
demeaning
Don Meyer
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15. Today I will do what others won’t, so
tomorrow I can accomplish what
others can’t.
Jerry Rice
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16. When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a
stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a
hundred times without as much as a crack showing in
it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in
two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but
all that had gone before.
Jacob Riis
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17. Excellence is the gradual result of
always wanting to do better.
Pat Riley
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18. The Game Honors Toughness.
Brad Stevens
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19. Good habits are hard to develop, but
easy to live with. Bad habits are easy
to develop and hard to live with
Brian Tracy
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20. A player who makes a team great is
better than a great player.
John Wooden
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