Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Brown

I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jerry Krause

Coach now the way you want to coach 10 years from now.

Jay Hernandez

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

Jay Leno

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

Jay Leno

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

Jay Bilas

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

Jay Bilas

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Jay Bilas

The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with

Carlisle Floyd

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

Candace Parker

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

Byron Scott

Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

Bud Wilkinson

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

Bud Wilkinson

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

Bud Wilkinson

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball is basketball.

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

Oscar Robertson

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

Oscar Robertson

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Oscar Robertson

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

Oscar Robertson

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

Oscar Robertson

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

Oscar Robertson

But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.

Oscar Robertson

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

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

Oscar Robertson

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.