Basketball Quotes
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.
You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.
It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.
Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don't like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don't necessarily enjoy.
Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble
Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team
Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.
Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.
I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.
As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
