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These Things I Know
My Mike Dunlap
Metro State Head Men’s Basketball Coach
- The best
teachers suffer the most.
- Assistant
coaches know more than when they become head coaches.
- It is
more difficult to be a head coach when you say, “Do as I say, not as I
do.”
- Confusion
is the order of the day when teams lose or players do not get playing
time.
- Being
the best at anything is a bitch.
- The
ability to watch, listen, and ask questions is a talent.
- Part
of good leadership is knowing when to follow.
- Name
the last coach who kept his job by graduating most of his players while
losing most of his games.
- Going
from good to great requires many little things. Repetition with an understanding of why we are doing
a certain act can never be left out.
- Compatibility
with a teammate requires that we find something small that we like and let
it grow from there.
- A good
practice coach is precise. He
requires that all around him be precise as well. Being sloppy is not an option.
- Everything
follows your head. When your head
is up your ass the only thing that results is darkness. Leading with your ass is a bad idea.
- Mountain
climbers call thin air the “death zone.”
Why? Because people make
bad decisions in the thin air.
Hence being prepared is not an option, rather an absolute.
- If you
want to really learn about stress and making good decisions, study
surgeons, firemen, the military or any one organization that has the most
to lose.
- People
should spend more time thinking.
You can only see and understand what you think.
- Storms
will come and go. A strong ship
with a smart captain can ride out most storms.
- The
great myth, “there are many ways to skin a cat.” There is only one way to do anything—the right way.
- When
you vote, does everyone agree with you?
Making a difficult decision where someone loses out is called
coaching.
- The
brutal reality of coaching is that you will be hired and fired—keep going
and do not look back.
- If he
had an I.Q. one point lower, you would have to water him.
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