Quotes about basket
basketball believe past
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night. Al McGuire
basketball boss trying
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
basketball people elevators
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
basketball stars graves
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
basketball winning important
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
basketball brother nice
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
basketball hurt long
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
basketball dirty ankles
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
basketball guy other-guys
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
basketball night saturday
Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
basketball jobs player
If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
basketball oxford common-sense
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
basketball war winning
Winning is only important in war and surgery.
basketball freshman sophomore
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
basketball college parent
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
basketball missing
God didn't miss any of us.
basketball guy paint
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
basketball philosophy class
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
basketball girl hair
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
basketball kids house
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
basketball life-is
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
basketball profession
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
basketball team personality
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
basketball fighting guy
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
basketball moon play
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
basketball son call-me
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
basketball school catholic
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
basketball player students
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
basketball education college
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
basketball kids helping
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
basketball good quick rebound time
We want to take our time and get good shots. You take a quick shot, they get the rebound and they're off to the races. That's not something we want happening.
basketball nba games
It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA! Chris Bosh
basketball dream kids
I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being a role player. They dream about being the man. I have that position in Toronto and to give that up and go somewhere else to be an addition would kinda defeat the purpose of my dreams.