Basketball Training: Skills, Speed, and Strength » basketball quotes http://www.richstoner.com The purpose is to provide information to basketball players and coaches that will help increase basketball skills, strength, and speed. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:02:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Some Thoughts From Pat Summit http://www.richstoner.com/some-thoughts-from-pat-summit http://www.richstoner.com/some-thoughts-from-pat-summit#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:51:53 +0000 Rich http://www.richstoner.com/?p=997

 

  • There is no such thing as self respect without respect for others.
  • Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
  • People who do not respect those around them will not make good team members and probably lack self esteem themselves.
  • Being responsible sometimes means making tough, unpopular decisions.
  • Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong?
  • Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
  • Surround yourself with people who are better than you are. Seek out quality people, acknowledge their talents, and let them do their jobs. You win with people.
  • Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
  • Communication eliminates mistakes.
  • We communicate all the time, even when we don’t realize it. Be aware of body language.
  • To make sure that they are getting her message, Coach Summitt has asked her players to respond to a correction in practice by saying “rebound,” and to being praised by saying “Two points.”
  • Make good eye contact.
  • Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.
  • Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.
  • Self discipline helps you believe in yourself.
  • Group discipline produces a unified effort toward a common goal.
  • Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.
  • Do the things that aren’t fun first, and do them well.
  • See yourself as self employed.
  • Put the Team Before Yourself.
  • When you understand yourself and those around you, you are better able to minimize weaknesses and maximize strengths. Personality profiles help.
  • Success is about having the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
  • Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
  • Be flexible.
  • Teamwork doesn’t come naturally. It must be taught.
  • Teamwork allows common people to obtain uncommon results.
  • Not everyone is born to lead. Role players are critical to group success.
  • In group success there is individual success.
  • Make Winning an Attitude.
  • Combine practice with belief.
  • Attitude is a choice. Maintain a positive outlook.
  • No one ever got anywhere by being negative.
  • Confidence is what happens when you’ve done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.
  • Competition isn’t social. It separates achievers from the average.
  • You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
    There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
  • It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts the most.
  • Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
  • Handle Success Like You Handle Failure. You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you handle it.
  • Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
  • It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

    • Here are some links to some video segments of Coach Summitt teaching:

    Each time you click on a link, you will probably need to scroll down the page to see the video segment.

    Tennessee Women’s Conversion to Defense Drill narrated by Coach Pat Summitt.

    In this clip from Building a Championship Team with the Definite Dozen, she discusses a little of what she feels the purpose of basketball is…

    In this video clip, Coach Summitt describes how she handles teams that trap the first pass: Mastering Special Situations

    In this video clip, Coach Summitt describes how they prepare their offense to play against the upcoming opponent’s defense and how they start practice each day.

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    I received these quotes in a email recently.  ”They are from a book that is full of thoughts and quotes from one of the most charismatic coaches in the history of sport. The book is amazing and here are just a few of the ‘wit and wisdom of Al McGuire.’ “
     
    “A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.”
    “My rule was I wouldn’t recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That’s not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.”

     

    “I don’t discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I’m not interested in philosophy classes.”

     

    “My era is over. Dictator coaches are finished. I was good for the ‘burn, baby, burn’ atmosphere. It’s time now for coaches who sit in dens.”

      

    “I don’t believe in looking past anybody. I wouldn’t look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.”

      

    “I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.”

     

    “If a player leaves Marquette and doesn’t have some of my blood in him, then I don’t think I’ve done a good job.”

     

    “It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”

      

    “If winning weren’t important nobody would keep score.”
    Once while coaching at Belmont Abbey College, McGuire handed his sports coat to an official and said, “Here, take this…you’ve taken everything else from me tonight.”

     

    “The people who know basketball, their elevators don’t go to the top.”

     

    “If you haven’t broken your nose in basketball , you haven’t really played. You’ve just tokened it.”

     

    “If the waitress has dirty angles, the chili is good.”

     

    “It’s so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one-foot putt and everybody say, “shhh, and not moving a muscle. Then we allow a nineteen-year- old kid to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.”

     

    “Life is what you allow yourself not to see.”

     

    “Every obnoxious fan has a wife at home who dominates him.”

      

    “The only mystery in life is why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

     

    “There’s always going to be problems, and I feel the greater the problems for a generation the great that generation is going to be.”

     

    “Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more. In a generation, you’ll have something.”

     

    “When I’m losing, they call me nuts. When I’m winning, they call me eccentric.”
    ( I think they always called me nuts  )

     

    “I always wanted to sit in the front seats on the bus. I always wanted to be called ‘Coach.’ Those were the only two things that were important to me.”

     

    When legendary University of Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp
    called McGuire ‘son’ during the 1968-69 NCAA tournament, the young upstart McGuire shot back: “Don’t call me son unless you’re going to include me in your will.”

     

    “The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.”

    From “Cracked Sidewalks and French Pastry: The Wit and Wisdom of Al McGuire
    By Tom Kertscher

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