Sometimes being different is good for a team...helps sharpen each other
We all lead and teach until we die.
With true friends, we don't have to measure our words.
Players -- be your own captain.
If you ain't serving, you ain't leading.
Coach Wooden served people but not nearly as much as when retired from coaching...worked harder after coaching serving
On taking notes: Retrieve, Review, Reinforce ...8% better retention if you review notes in a week
Today is all we really have
You can have anything you want but you can't have everything
Worse reason to take a job? Money
Some of the greatest feelings can be expressed in silence
All successful ventures have the element of team building
In tough times, revert back to the process -- clean it up
Take a good luck at the picture before you put the puzzle together (whole-part-whole teaching)
Mark of a real leader is when he gets ran out of town he looks like he's leading a parade
Plan, Prepare, Practice, Play ----- like you lost your last game
"Responsibility is the Price of Greatness." -Coach Summitt
Be the kind of coach you want your son/daughter to play for
Key for coach (and parents) -- catch 'em doing something good!
Key for successful coaching is finding a way to win when the ball doesn't bounce right
#1 thing that hurts leaders – arrogance
Must understand it takes great energy to move people to a higher level
Communicating to your players -- phrases are better than sentences
More teams, businesses & families fail from a lack of discipline...Discipline more than talent & skill will prevail in the end
"You haven't taught until they've learned." - John Wooden
Every part is important -- even the parts you can't see -- they may even be more valuable
Whisper criticism, yell praise
Regardless of where we are, somebody helped us get here
Leaders that "reflect" credit, "shine" brightly
The saddest day in your life is when you are no longer productive
Everyone needs to know someone who sees greatness in them.
The one thing I've noticed in all the great coaches I've observed is that they brought it everyday
The most essential and greatest challenge of a coach is to teach players to never give up.
Rely on discipline not emotion
Don't say it if you don't mean it -- don't pull your guns if you're not ready to shoot.
Amount of words don't correlate with amount of wisdom
People aren't attracted by what they see in you, but by what you see in them.
As a coach you need to know who is helping you when aren't there
Some would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Sit and think 10 minutes every day about what you do...how can I be better
Measure people by how they handle a challenge
Most teams fail because of selfishness inside
Exercise is your 2nd job...helps your health, your sanity and generates ideas
“Glad to if I’m able” is better than “Yes”
Create a “3rd Place” – away from work and family where you can read, study and pray.
Best thing you can do for yourself is pray for other people
Customers quite because incompetence and indifference
Nothing like the thrill of doing something that benefits someone else
Weekly planning is the key to successful organizing
Can’t tell an eagle from a buzzard when they fly together
Get all the good ideas you can but know you can’t use them all
Everything you do you write it down so you can do it better the next time
A great leader never gives a good team member a reason to quite…a poor leader gives them several everyday
You never stand as tall as when you admit a mistake
Keys to team building: shared ownership, shared suffering, individual responsibility, collective pride
You learn a lot more at a funeral than you do at a wedding
It’s OK to make a mistake but don’t make mistake of moping, sulking, pouting, or quitting.
Genius is 90% concentration
Knowledge is knowing what to say…wisdom is know whether to say it.
Complainers are not competitors
I wouldn’t be alive today if our players didn’t compete at the car wreck
You don’t have to win a championship to be a champion
Very few people reach the level of significance
Family is a glass bowl (fragile)…your job is a rubber ball – treat each accordingly
People don’t pay for average
Give your gift away every day
Anything NOT in moderation is bad
Improve daily by reading and observing
Play the best players that play the best together
