Basketball Quotes

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

I think we're going in the right direction.

Winning is the best deodorant.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Players will never do more than you demand.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

You get what you tolerate!

What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.

In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible.

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.