Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Krzyzewski

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Mike Krzyzewski

When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!

Mike Krzyzewski

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Mike Krzyzewski

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

Kevin Hart

I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

Kenyon Martin

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us

Kendrick Lamar

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Les Claypool

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

Lenny Wilkens

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

Lenny Wilkens

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

Latrell Sprewell

Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.

Larry Bird

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

Larry Bird

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

Larry Bird

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Larry Bird

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Larry Bird

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

Larry Bird

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

Larry Bird

You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Larry Bird

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

Larry Bird

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

Larry Bird

I like being by myself.

Larry Bird

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

Larry Bird

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

Larry Bird

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

Larry Bird

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Larry Bird

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

Larry Bird

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

Larry Bird

The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

Larry Bird

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Larry Bird

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

Larry Bird

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

Larry Bird

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.