Basketball Quotes

In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I would always wear basketball jerseys and have my hair in a ponytail.

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

If you're keeping score, win!

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

Bill Clinton did midnight basketball. He is not looked at by this current generation of Democrats as anywhere near the hero he was back in the nineties.

Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.