Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serena Williams

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Sean Astin

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

Michael Waltrip

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

Sherman Alexie

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Sherman Alexie

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sherman Alexie

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

Scott Skiles

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

Joe Namath

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

Joe Dumars

I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.

Joe Dumars

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Pat Summerall

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

Pat Williams

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

Pat Williams

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

Pat Summitt

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

Pat Summitt

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Pat Summitt

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Pat Summitt

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Pat Summitt

With attitude, you can determine your own performance.

Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

Pat Summitt

I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

Pat Summitt

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

Pat Summitt

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

Pat Summitt

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

Pat Summitt

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Pat Summitt

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Pat Summitt

I was a little concerned about it when State Farm approached me because, you know, I've never done a commercial by any means, but I tried to look at it as something that would be good for our game. We've never had a women's basketball coach represented in that fashion and I love State Farm for the fact they really support the women's game.

Pat Summitt

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

Pat Summitt

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

Pat Summitt

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.