Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Newell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Pete Newell.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Peter Francis Newell was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses.

American - Coach | August 31, 1915 - November 17, 2008

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There is that interdependence and that strength you get from a team, that the group is greater than any individual.

Pete Newell

I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

Pete Newell

Coaching and teaching are two different things. The coaching never turned me on that much, but I always enjoyed the teaching, the practice sessions.

Pete Newell

Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

Pete Newell