Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

Cindy Nelson

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

Cindy Crawford

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Andre Iguodala

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

Alyssa Milano

The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

The crises of basketball that is hampering the development of the sport cannot be ended by means of exclusion. Consensus and unity are the keys to ending the impasse that stops the Philippines from competing in international basketball events.

What I remember most is Danielle really took it to the hole. Her best move is going hard to the basket and she can definitely get there with her first step. She gets it and goes. She finishes well.

Jim Larranaga

What we stand for is far greater than whether we win or lose on a basketball floor. We are all educators. Our responsibility is to teach these youngsters, whether they're basketball players or any other student-athlete we're working with, to set the right example.

Doug Flutie

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

Dot Jones

I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

Doug Collins

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Doug Collins

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

Doug Collins

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Doug Collins

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Doug Collins

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Don Imus

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

Andrew Weil

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

Chuck Daly

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Chuck Daly

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Chuck Daly

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Chuck Daly

The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Chuck Daly

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

Chuck Daly

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Chuck Daly

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Chuck Connors

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Ansel Elgort

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Andrew Bogut

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

Donyell Marshall

Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.