COACHING WISDOM

I don't remember exactly where I recieved this from, but it is a great series of coaching wisdom that can help all of us.

Players may not remember what coaches tell them about the technical aspects of basketball. But they will never forget the coach.

- Anonymous

X’s and O’s are the least important thing in basketball. All successful teams do one thing year after year. That one thing is that they start over new again.
- Anonymous

The essence of coaching is the vision you have for your team and how it is communicated.
- Anonymous

Success is a matter of never-ceasing application. You must forever work at it diligently. Otherwise, it takes wings and fly’s away. At no other time can you afford to rest on your laurels-a pause for self admiration-because there are others who have eyes on your coveted place and who would like nothing better than to push you out of it, especially if they observe you have a weak hold on it or doing nothing to strengthen your position.

Systems don’t win, execution of systems wins

To coach someone to be the best is a much higher an honor than being the best
- Coach Dan Gable, University of Iowa Wrestling



Some Thoughts from Jim Rohn, Speaker and Philosopher

• Part of success is preparation on purpose.
• Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.
• Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
• Don’t join an easy crowd. You won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

You must constant ask yourself these questions:

1. Who am I around?
2. What are they doing to me?
3. What have they got me reading?
4. What have they got me saying?
5. Where do they have me going?
6. What do they have me thinking?
7. What do they have me becoming?

After you answer those questions, then ask yourself this question: Is that OK?

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is “What do you want?”

Your belief determines you actions and your actions determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Life is an inside-out game. The trust is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become-the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.