Sergio Scariolo

Sergio Scariolo (C.E.1961 – living), Italian basketball coach.

Quotes by Sergio Scariolo:

 * Humility, for sure, and work. I only learned it over the years and it helped me a lot.
 * I am a happy person, which is no small thing, and also lucky. But I looked for luck a bit: I was ready when the train passed.
 * The credibility you can have towards your team depends on the quality of the technical-tactical work and vice versa. In the end, if you have credibility with your players, if you lead them to believe in what you do day after day, you can also allow yourself to experiment, to do something a little more difficult, to be more demanding compared to work on the pitch.
 * work pays. And it is never finished.
 * Is calm my secret? My players, especially in training, would not agree very much.
 * he has a sporting culture that is still immature. The reactions to victories and defeats are disproportionate, especially in November when nothing is won. The more emotion and results there is, the less the teams function and have growth prospects.
 * He is unique in his ability to see the game before it happens. Sensitivity and timing in anticipating actions. As they say, he sees two steps ahead. Even in defensive readings although he is not a top defender.
 * If you're a good team from October to June, great, you're great. But winning teams are good when it matters most, when it's time to win. Furthermore, there are thousands of circumstances that can impact your final result. Sometimes you don't win and your team did a great job too. But when you have to do it is when it matters most: at the beginning of the playoffs, in the dying games, when the final verdicts are issued.
 * Bologna is a basketball city. Of course the results unleash the enthusiasm of the fans and lead to large crowds. But in Bologna, when the fuse is lit, the city responds. Not many cities can boast their passion and interest in basketball. it is at the same level as football, even when the football team is an established first division team. It's not a normal situation.


 * I don't know if I was born to be a coach, certainly to have fun with basketball. It is a game of such great richness and in which the physical, medical, mental, medical and tactical parts come into play. A game of a completeness and precision that compares with the human and more unpredictable part.
 * I still believe it is a good quality of any coach to be curious, to "steal" an idea, a concept, a form of expression, a detail.
 * Throughout a coach's career, making choices is a daily job. Over time you learn to make radical choices not too soon which could be functional to an immediate increase in competitiveness, but which in the long term shorten the number of players who can feel involved and motivated to help the team. What you learn over time is to make choices at the right times and without speeding it up, at the cost of losing a few more games.