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 quotes for coaches deal with themes like hard work and opportunity.

Quotes for Coaches: Hard Work

• Most men stop when they begin to tire. Good men go until they think they are going to collapse. But the very best know the mind tires before the body, and push themselves further and further, beyond all limits. Only when their limits are shattered can the attainable be reached. – Mark Mysnyk
• I don’t choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I’ll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy. – J. Robinson
• Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. – Japanese proverb
• If you don’t invest much of yourself, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning isn’t very exciting. – Dick Vermeil
• Hard work is the best remedy for all of life’s trials. – Unknown
• The harder you work, the harder it is to lose. – Unknown
• The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer. – Henry Clay, American Statesman
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. – Henri Louis Bergson
• Before I’d get in the ring, I’d have already won or lost it on the road. The real part is won or lost somewhere far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. – Muhammad Ali

• It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. – Paul “Bear” Bryant
• I am a great believer in luck, The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. – Coleman Cox
• What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell
• There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. – J. G. Holland
• Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, and destiny. – Alfred A. Montapert
•  I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. – W. Clement Stone
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. – Goethe
• Ideas without action are worthless. – Harvey Mackay

Quotes for Coaches: Opportunity

• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers
• Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him. – German Proverb
• We all face a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. – Unknown
• Opportunity may knock, but you must open the door. – Unknown
• All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Morarji Desai
• Desire is the key that opens the door when opportunity knocks. – Unknown
• The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities. – Norman Vincent Peale
• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
• Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones. – Unknown
• If not us, who? If not now, when? – John F. Kennedy
• Challenges should not be seen as obstacles but rather as opportunities for acquiring new experiences in life. – Unknown
• Destiny is no 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. – William Jennings Bryan
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein
• Never miss a good chance to shut up. – Will Rogers
• There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long- range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy

Related: More Great Quotes for Basketball Coaches

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