5,260 Quotes About Sports

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.