Basketball Quotes

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

With me, everything's right on the table.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

Basketball used to be my top priority.

I miss basketball every now and then.

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

What does this program/team need this week?

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

I disobeyed a basic basketball rule and never boxed out. I figured that if I had the inside position I had enough of an advantage to just go get the ball. And coaches left me alone because I got it.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

You have to learn to play with what you've got.