Famous Quotes & Sayings

Red Auerbach

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

Red Auerbach

You can't win without the ball.

Red Auerbach

If you're keeping score, win!

Red Auerbach

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

Red Auerbach

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

Red Auerbach

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Red Auerbach

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

Red Auerbach

All records are made to be broken.

Red Auerbach

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

Red Auerbach

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

Red Auerbach

Look after your people.

Red Auerbach

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Red Auerbach

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Red Auerbach

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

Red Auerbach

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Red Auerbach

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Tucker Max

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.

Tupac Shakur

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

Tracy McGrady

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

Venus Williams

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

Roger Ailes

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

Robert Ringer

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success.

Ryan Lochte

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Roger Kahn

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Troy Polamalu

There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.

Rick Riordan

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

Rick Fox

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

Richard DeVos

I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

Regis Philbin

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

Vince Lombardi

I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

Vince Lombardi

To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

Vince Lombardi

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Vince Lombardi

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.