

How can you improve if you’re never wrong?” – Pat Summitt


That’s why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. “There’s always something in the game you wish you would have done different.“Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.” Pat Summitt.Either you’re invested and a great teammate, or your not” – Brad Stevens “You have a choice to make when you’re not playing.“Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.” – Billy Donovan.“If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.” – Michael Owen.“Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.” - Tex Winter.If I’m not shooting well, I’ll try to be an asset in other ways – like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle” – Rick Barry To be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. “I was taught to play the game from a total team concept.How good are you on a day when you just don’t have it? Can you push yourself that day? That’s a mark of your character. Your mark is what you do on a day when you don’t want to do it.I get butterflies… I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I’m ready for the moment.” – Stephen Curry “I’ve never been afraid of big moments.Train like you’re in second.” – Stephen Curry You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.” – Stephen Curry “Be the best version of yourself in anything that you do.“I want to practice to the point where it’s almost uncomfortable how fast you shoot, so that in the game things kind of slow down.” – Stephen Curry.“The best teams play for each other, not with each other” – Jeff Van Gundy.“Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots” – David Blatt.If you have any suggestions please drop them in the comments.

Below you will find some of our favorite coach quotes that we have saved over the years. I am sure you can tell by our daily words of wisdom in the Hoop Coach newsletter.
