Finding the right words to inspire your team can be one of the most difficult tasks for any basketball coach. But sometimes, those words of wisdom might very well be the difference between an engaged and ready squad, and one that falls flat. Here’s a look at another set of great quotes for basketball coaches. These deal with themes like commitment, discipline, and team goals.

Commitment – Great Quotes for Basketball Coaches

• The difference between where you are and where you want to be is your commitment to getting there. – Michael Clapier
• Nobody who ever gave their best effort regretted it. – George Halas
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
• It’s not important whom you wrestle; your biggest opponent wears your uniform. You must overcome your own short comings. – Mitch Clark
• Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it’s the tough matches that are going to make the difference. -Jim Zalesky

Discipline – Great Quotes for Basketball Coaches

• Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it’s the only thing that matters. – Mark H. McCormack
• Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things. – Lawrence D. Bell
• Nothing is more harmful to the service than the neglect of discipline; for discipline, more than numbers, gives one army superiority over another. – George Washington
• Bad habits are like a good bed, easy to get into but difficult to get out of. – Unknown
• If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalyn Carter
• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period. – Lou Holtz
• Repeated actions are stored as habits. If the repeated actions aren’t fundamentally sound, then what comes out in a game can’t be sound. What comes out will be bad habits. – Chuck Knox
• If you haven’t got the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over? – Jeffrey J. Mayer
• Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition. – Unknown
• You can drill and waste your time or you can drill and get better. Either way we will drill! – Unknown
• It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. – Claude M. Bristol

Education – Great Quotes for Basketball Coaches

• The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education. – Julius Erving
• If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. – Gerald R. Ford
• Even in the dictionary, academics come before athletics. – William A. Welker
• I will study and prepare myself . . . and someday my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln
• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make something happen. – Lee Iacocca
• Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. – Unknown

Goals – Great Quotes for Basketball Coaches

• If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. – David Campbell
• More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. – Billy Sunday
• Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good. – Paul “Bear” Bryant
• The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream. – Unknown
• Remember a goal isn’t a goal until it is in writing, until then it’s a dream and everyone has dreams. – Unknown
• Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high. – Greg Norman
• The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. – Mack R. Douglas
• All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
• You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the other shore. – Unknown
• The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough to inspire your creativity and ignite your passion. – Anthony Robbins
• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Jack Kinder
• An obstacle is what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. – Unknown

Related: Great Quotes on Coaching for Basketball Coaches

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