Quotes & Sayings About Great Basketball Coaches

No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may be a hundred great coaches of whom you have never heard in basketball, football, or any sport who will probably never receive the acclaim they deserve simply because they have not been blessed with the talent. Although not every coach can win consistently with talent, no coach can win without it. — John Wooden

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches. — Morgan Wootten

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life. — Michael Josephson

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. — Oscar Robertson

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams — Tom Thibodeau

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win. — Pat Riley

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly

Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot. — John Feinstein

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars