"Good Quotes"
"It is foolish to expect a young man to
follow your advice and to ignore your example."
Coach Meyer
"Coaching is making men do
what they don´t want, so they can become what they want to be"
by Tom Landry
Chris Holtmann
Taylor University
"Discipline is the refining fire which enables talent to become ability."
Coach John Marcum
Tecumseh High School,Ok
"It takes no talent to hustle."
Coach Hans Schmidt
Carmel High
Carmel Ca
"The more you complain, the more you find things to complain about. The more you
give thanks, the more you find things to be thankful for."
by Coach Bob Hoffman
"Lack of confidence is born from a lack of preparation."
Shannon Wilburn
"Our reach must exceed our grasp."
by Oswald Chambers
"It's easy to have faith in yourself and discipline when you're a winner, when
you're Number 1. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you are
not yet a winner."
by Vince Lombardi
"Happiness begins where selfishness ends."
by John Wooden
Coach John Marcum
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
by Darrel Royal
Steen Guido
Horsholm Denmark
"Work hard to make things easier."
by Pete Carill
"Your attitude is either the lock or the key to the door of success."
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Coach Honeycutt
"Ability will get you to the top, character will keep you there."
by Coach Wooden
Coach Brent Brannon
Calhoun HS (Georgia)
"Your toughest competition in life is anyone who is willing to work harder than
you."
by my Father
Coach Casey
Coleman
"Individual commitment to a group effort. That´s what makes a team work, a
company work, a society work, a civilization work."
by Vince Lombardi
"The goal is not at the end of the road-the goal is the road."
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
"We shall reap the courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices."
"Accept the challenges to that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."
"If what you did yesterday still looks big to you-you haven't done much today."
Keith Muchow
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
"Winning requires voluntary cooperation."
- Pat Riley
West Holt High School, Atkinson, NE
unselfishness)"
Rich Odell
-Brady Solum
Whether you think you can or think you can't; you're right!
Coach Keith Lockwood
"The work of the world isn't done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people who have learned to work in an extraordinary way."
Gordan
B. Hinckley
Sent by Scott Milam
"Winning basketball is not a game of great plays, rather a game of eliminating mistakes."
"The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."
"Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to trust."
"Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
Authors
Unknown; ideas picked up along the way. Miles Watters Clovis High School
Downs, IL
"The key to life is doing what you should do instead of what you feel like doing."
PE Instructor /
Head Men's Basketball Coach
Lane Community College
"In sports and in life there are winners and losers, only those that never dared to compete are truly defeated."
"Stop talking to God about how big your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!"
Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen
Marty Gross
Assistant Basketball Coach
Rice University
"What your MIND can conceive and your HEART believe, you can ACHIEVE!"
BY GARY MACK
RYAN RICHARDS
NORTHWEST HIGH SCHOOL MENS
BASKETBALL
DALTON, GA
If greatness were easy, everyone would
be great!
If success were easy, everyone would be successful!
If life were easy, everyone would be full of life!
Only those who have the attitude to prepared and mental toughness to get
through it can be a great success, full of life!
Eric Mouton
St. Thomas More HS
Lafayette, LA
“Show me your three closest friends, and I’ll show you your future.”
Unknown
Steve Smith
Mansfield, TX
“TEAMWORK
– The fuel that produced
uncommon results in
common people."
By Uuknown
Coach
Shad Reed
"He is no fool who
gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
James Elliott
"At first we make our habits, and then our
habits make us."
by Author unknown
Dell Leonard
Mountain Home High
School (AR)
"Have character, don't be one." Mike Waller - Coal Grove High School
"Do what you can with
what you have where you are."
by Theodore Roosevelt
Kiley Yates - Underwood, Iowa
"Victorious warriors
win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then
seek to win."
by Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
Whitt Jones - Starrs Mill HS
(GA)
"The time will come
when winter will ask what you were doing all summer."
by Henry Clay, American Statesman
Patrick Rady
Southwestern H.S. - Hanover, IN
"If you do the little
things, the big things will happen"
Mark Majewski
Villa Maria Academy - Erie, PA
"In a world of give and
take, there are not many willing to give what it takes."
by Clebe McCleary
Coach Paul Dixon
Sparta HS - Sparta, Mo.
"Kids will do what you
expect and they will also do what you let them get away with".
Mike Saylor
South Vigo HS, Terre Haute, Indiana
"Dream the
Impossible - Do The Incredible"
Coach Bennett
New Boston Huron High School
"Do you really understand all of what you think you know?"
George Torigian
by Dave Torigian
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together
is success."
Henry Ford
by Coach Mike Schmidt
Hitchcock, South Dakota
"Great minds have purposes, Little minds have wishes."
Washington Irving
by Coach Lee Allen
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
by Christy Lee
"Everybody wants to follow the leader; but, nobody wants to lead the followers."
I saw this on a school outdoor board.
by Coach Lou Sartori
"Leaders are like eagles - they don't flock. You find them one at a time."
Knute Rockne
by Klint Pleasant
"Boards, Boards, Boards"
Knute Rockne
by George Beaudon
Rochester College's #1 Fan
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
John F. Kennedy
by Romone Neal
"The three best things I've learned in coaching: my players must play Hard,
Hard, Hard."
Coach John Wild
by JT Henderson
"A person really doesn´t become whole, until he becomes a part of something
that´s bigger than himself."
Jim Valvano
by Coach Mike Krzyzewski
"Pride is the sheet anchor of morality.
The doer of noble deeds.
When love flies and hope fails,
Pride still lingers.
The savage rear guard of the human soul."
Unknown
by Coach John Hirst
"The only easy day was yesterday."
Clint Black
by Coach Kevin Gill
"How can you expect a basketball player to work hard on the court if he doesn't
work hard in the classroom?"
by Coach Blake Perkins
"Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between
reality falls."
Lou Holtz
by Greg Eubanks
"All Battles Are Won Before They Are Fought."
from Sun Tzu
by Coach Arlan Arthaud
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his
goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Thomas Jefferson
by Coach Romone Neal
"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the
credit."
Robert Yates - owner of Dale Jarrett's racing team.
by Coach Calvin Decker
"Athletics and
Competition is not for everyone. You are the courageous ones!
by Coach Nate Higgins
Montgomery, MN
- Magic Johnson
" It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any
success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in
basketball, from religion."
--John Wooden 1910-
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what
you can do."
-John Wooden
"Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to
grips with his role on the team."-
Scottie Pippen
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can
do them."
-Michael Jordan
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying"
Michael Jordan
"I've always believed that if you put in the work,
the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I
do, then I can expect half-hearted results."
Michael Jordan
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've
lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning
shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that
is why I succeed.
-Michael Jordan
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big
shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative
result. "
-Michael Jordan
"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."
-Michael Jordan
"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here,
it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest
part of the day."
-Michael Jordan
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be
roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to
stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out
how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
-Michael Jordan
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
-Michael Jordan
"Winners never quit and quitters never win. "
-Michael Jordan
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
-Michael Jordanfrom Linda Simon
"Ten years from now I won't remember how many points I had each game, or how many newspaper articles had my name in them, or how many minutes I played. I will, however, remember that I was part of something larger than myself, and that I was part of something I helped make successful, because I was part of a team.
Coach David Steele
Hot Springs County High
School basketball coach
"The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."
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Coach Codi Schmitz
Williston High School