Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

Teamwork is really a form of trust. It's what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won't achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.

Pat Summitt

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Pat Summitt

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Pat Summitt

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

Pat Summitt

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Pat Summitt

Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to continue plodding in the face of the most adverse circumstances.

Pat Summitt

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Terrell Owens

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

Tex Winter

Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

Tex Winter

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

Tex Winter

There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution

Thad Matta

The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

Thad Matta

Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them

Thad Matta

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

Thad Matta

Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great

Terry McMillan

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

Marcus Camby

We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2

Marcus Camby

Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

Marcus Camby

I speak a little Spanish, so I'm able to communicate.

Marcus Camby

I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

Michael Finley

What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

Michael Finley

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.

Michael Malone

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality

Michael Mandelbaum

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Joseph Brodsky

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Leonardo da Vinci

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Larry Shyatt

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Larry Sanders

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

Larry the Cable Guy

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!

Michael Jordan

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Michael Jordan

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Michael Jordan

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

Michael Jordan

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.