Let your players know that you love them.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.
If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.