I attended a women’s basketball game recently in which the home team sought to win the regular season conference championship against the visiting perennial conference power. I didn’t know anything about either team—their strengths or personnel. The first few quarters were close, but the home team led. At the beginning of the third quarter, I predicted …
Lenny Krebs has been coaching high school basketball for nearly 20 years. Last year was the first time he made team culture king. What he learned has had such a profound impact on his players and his coaching philosophy that he will never go back to his former ways. I met Lenny at the PGC/Glazier …
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
You’ve probably heard that “love covers over a multitude of sins.” In the sports world, that translates to “wins cover a multitude of sins.”
Patrick Lencioni defines trust as:
The confidence among team members that their peer’s intentions are good and that there is no reason to be protective or fearful around the group.
Though Kevin Cook found success as an assistant at Kansas and for the four-time WNBA champion Houston Comets, he may be experiencing his most rewarding success at Division III Gallaudet University, the world’s only all-deaf college. When he arrived in September 2007, he didn’t know sign language or that the team hadn’t won a conference …
I was just 13, but remember it so clearly. My first basketball camp! Jim Ehler, one of the University of Dayton assistant coaches, held a basketball camp for girls.