Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephon Marbury

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

Stephon Marbury

Don't get me wrong - I love Jason Kidd. He's a great point guard (But) how am I comparing myself to him when I think I'm the best point guard to play basketball? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, how can I sit here and compare myself to somebody if I already think I'm the best?I'm telling you what it is: I know I'm the best point guard in the NBA. I don't need anybody else to tell me that. When I go on the basketball court, if I think about what you're all saying, I'll lose my mind.

Stephen Dunn

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Stephen Lang

As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.

Steffi Graf

You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

Thomas Jones

While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind.

Rebecca Lobo

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

Rebecca Lobo

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

Vin Scully

We survive our way through basketball hoping the #‎ Lakers will survive and we hope for the #‎ Kings and for the #‎ Ducks and we want them all to succeed but if you are a true fan and especially if you are a #‎ Dodgers fan deep down inside you are saying please get out of the way, get off the stage, here come the DODGERS!

Vince Carter

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

Victor Cruz

Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

Rick Majerus

I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.

Rick Majerus

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

Rick Majerus

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Rick Majerus

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

Rick Majerus

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Rick Majerus

You must have a passion to coach.

Rick Majerus

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

Rick Majerus

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Rick Majerus

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Rick Majerus

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Rick Majerus

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

Rick Majerus

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

Thomas Peterffy

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

Robert Griffin III

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

Robert Griffin III

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

Red Auerbach

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Red Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Red Auerbach

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

Red Auerbach

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.