Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.
The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court
X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do
No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.
The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods. And every cent spent on the cops, investigators, bureaucrats, courts, jails, weapons, and tests required to feed the drug-war machine is a cent not spent on reversing the social policies that have destroyed the cities, nourished racism, and laid the groundwork for crack culture.
I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.
Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Dont be looking at all the other things. Start with you
Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.