Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chamique Holdsclaw

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

Chamique Holdsclaw

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.

Chance The Rapper

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

Charles Mingus

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Charles J. Givens

Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.

Charles Garfield

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

Billy Tubbs

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

Bill Belichick

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

Bill Belichick

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you

Bo Ryan

I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Bo Schembechler

Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

We are all frustrated. Mike is frustrated and I don't blame him. We are not playing the type of basketball to win a championship.

The referee made the call. It was up to him. I thought I made the basket and got fouled.

Charles Krauthammer

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Bob Myers

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

Billy Donovan

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

Billy Donovan

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

Billy Donovan

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

Billy Donovan

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

Billy Donovan

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

Bill Russell

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

Bill Russell

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Bill Russell

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Bill Russell

People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.

Bill Russell

The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

Bill Russell

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

Bill Russell

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Bill Russell

The only important statistic is the final score.

Bill Russell

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

Bill Russell

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

Bill Russell

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.