Norm Sloan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.
-- Norm Sloan -
To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.
-- Norm Sloan -
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
-- Norm Sloan -
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.
-- Norm Sloan -
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.
-- Norm Sloan -
In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.
-- Norm Sloan -
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
-- Norm Sloan
-
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
-
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
-
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
-
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
-
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
-
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
-
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
-
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
-
I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.
You may also like:
-
Henry Iba
Basketball Coach -
Jim Valvano
Basketball Coach -
Pete Newell
Basketball Coach