Pete Carril famous quotes

03-28-2025

Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Kids #Worry
Coaches win practices, players win games
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Player #Winning
A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Thinking #Two
Coaching is preparation.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Preparation #Coaching
Bad shooters are always open
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Coaching #Shooter
I don't recruit players who are nasty to their parents. I look for players who realize the world doesn't revolve around them.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Player #Parent
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Attitude #Team
Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team.
-- Pete Carril

#Team #Selfish #Player
Winning takes character and intelligence. It is the most important thing you can do because it's a reaffirmation of your character.
-- Pete Carril

#Character #Winning #Important
A coachâ€™s job is to put his team where it can function effectively and win,
-- Pete Carril

#Jobs #Team #Winning
Work hard to make things easier.
-- Pete Carril

#Sports #Hard Work #Psychology
If you think you are working hard, you can work harder. If you think you are doing enough, there is more that you can do. No one really ever exhausts his full potential.
-- Pete Carril

#Hard Work #Thinking #Full Potential
The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Quality #Shots
Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Character #Adversity
The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Two #Ingredients
The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.
-- Pete Carril

#Discipline #Devotion
A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Distance #Player
Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.
-- Pete Carril

#Basketball #Running #Hard Work
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.
-- Pete Carril

#Leadership #Basketball #Sports

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