top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
Standard
Customized
More
"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I want to see if the player communicates with his teammates and how he responds to coaching. Another thing to remember is players' bodies can develop better than their skills."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's difficult to compare coaches. You really can't compare them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen."
Basketball
"You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os."
Basketball
"It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race."
Nation
"This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money."
Money
"The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that."
Sports
"I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school."
Sports
"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!"
Want
"We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team."
Sports
"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."
Sports
"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."
Sports
bottom of page