Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Erving

Attitude is altitude.

Julius Erving

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Julius Erving

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Joycelyn Elders

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

Kanye West

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

Paul D. Boyer

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Mike Jarvis

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.

Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Mike Krzyzewski

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Mike Krzyzewski

In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Mike Krzyzewski

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

Mike Krzyzewski

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

Mike Krzyzewski

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Mike Krzyzewski

I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Mike Krzyzewski

We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,

Mike Krzyzewski

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

Mike Krzyzewski

When you are speaking to your team after a game, never talk about the kid who was the star of the game. Talk about what your other players did to help the team win. Be sure to spread the wealth... Then have individual meetings with one to three players to praise and reinforce. Make sure you touch them.

Mike Krzyzewski

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

Mike Krzyzewski

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Mike Krzyzewski

...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

Mike Krzyzewski

The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

Mike Krzyzewski

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

Mike Krzyzewski

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Mike Krzyzewski

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

Mike Krzyzewski

When I had troubles, I'd go out with basketball - you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

Mike Krzyzewski

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

Mike Krzyzewski

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Mike Krzyzewski

That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.

Mike Krzyzewski

People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

Mike Krzyzewski

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Mike Krzyzewski

A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.

Mike Krzyzewski

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.