Morgan Wootten Quotations

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

If I can pay the bills, I'm happy.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Leadership starts at the top.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

I'm glad the NCAA is pushing back the 3-point line a foot. I'm a big supporter of the 3-point shot; it's exciting. I hope the high schools adopt the same rule.