Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Iba

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Henry Iba.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Henry Iba

Henry Payne Iba was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College, now known as Northwest Missouri State University, from 1929 to 1933; the University of Colorado Boulder from 1933 to 1934; and the Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, known as Oklahoma A&M prior to 1957, from 1934 to 1970, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 751–340. He led Oklahoma A&M to consecutive NCAA Basketball Tournament titles, in 1945 and 1946. Iba was also the athletic director at Oklahoma A&M / Oklahoma State from 1935 to 1970 and the school's head baseball coach from 1934 to 1941, tallying a mark of 90–41. As head coach of the United States men's national basketball team, he led the U.S. to the gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. Iba was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1969.

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.
Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can...the parents have invested in you.
I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots. — © Henry Iba
I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.
Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
Don't let a week go by without conferences with each player, you can't teach it all on the floor.
We are not going to play them; they are going to play us.
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
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