Keith Harder

Sales and management professional, basketball coach. Fitness, sunshine, motorcycles, and old trucks.

[Coach Jeff Barnes @JeffBarnes52]

As an AD, I often hear people say, “Winning is not important.”

I disagree.

Winning is important, but the journey required to become a winner is even more important.

The goal is to maximize an athlete’s talent through adversity while teaching resilience, discipline, and accountability.

Losing should hurt, because standards matter. But every loss should become one step closer to winning.

If we tell athletes winning is not important, we are not preparing them for life.

The pursuit of winning teaches lessons that last far beyond the scoreboard.

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@TeachHoopsBBall We play FIBA rules in Canada, 24 second shot clock in high school and our U18 team just beat the USA …

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@TheHoopHerald Great stuff! Embracing the process and buying in is a championship mentality!

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

Yes, and competitive sport helps teach the mental toughness and resilience to deal with life’s challenges.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.

Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥

You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts.

Hard is the lesson.

What’s one hard lesson sports taught you that helped later in life? 👇

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@DRIVEBasketball Playing at the CCAA level is still good basketball. The top CCAA teams can compete with USports. Getting minutes and competing is much more fun than sitting on the end of the bench.

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@MagdeleneFeher Yes! My happy place!

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@Sofia50020Sofia Yes!

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@DukeEchoes Great perspective!

[Blue Devil Voices @DukeEchoes]

Coach K on coaching:

“The high moments are even higher because you experienced misery. You won’t get that high unless you experience that low.”

Now Coach Scheyer is stepping into his own story, embracing the process that leads to something special.😈

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@ShaneWenzel Great quote!

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

The players that sincerely want to be great understand!

[Michael Stroup 🏴‍☠️🌊 @CoachStroup]

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable.

Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average.

If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

💯 agree

[Coach Vint @coachvint]

👇I love this from Bobby Hurley.

💥If you are a teacher or coach you need to push people beyond their self-imposed limitations.

‼️If you are an athlete, be thankful when a teacher or coach pushes you beyond your comfort zone.

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@JamesALight Great stuff!

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔇𝔢𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔦𝔱 𝔗𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 📰 @the_det_times]

The legendary Tom Izzo drops a legendary quote, via @E_Matasovsky57:

"At my place, we play for the players that played before us, and we play for the players with us. And we sure play for the name on the front of the jersey."

😤

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Charles Barkley on coaches that coach their guys hard

“Parents & friends get mad because you're getting yelled at, get better parents & better friends."

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

Yep, teach toughness every day!

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot.

"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in."

"That's the American way - except America has gotten soft."

You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn.

It starts with showing up and earning it every single day.

No shortcuts...Just hard work.
(🎥@CBBonFOX )

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@KurtSupeCPA Makes so much sense!

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

Never stop learning!

[Hoop Herald @TheHoopHerald]

Rick Pitino on improving as a coach

“When you stop learning, you have to stop coaching”

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@Nithya_Shrii I am from the “older generation “ and I know how tough it is to find meaningful work! My experience and education does not mean much anymore.

[Keith Harder @Cobrasbbkh]

@Nithya_Shrii Time stops for no one, and as you age it seems to accelerate. Right now is the youngest you will ever be, seize the moment!