Quotes about basketball
basketball lasts treats
Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last. Paul Pierce
basketball zero games
The game isn't over till the clock says zero.
basketball lying team
We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee. Mark Gottfried
basketball coaching hearing
Hearing improves with PRAISE!
basketball team vision
Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.
basketball struggle define-yourself
It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself. Pat Buchanan
basketball father knowing
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry. Pat Conroy
basketball athlete games
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
basketball mind
Your mind is what makes everything else work. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
basketball trying islam
I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
basketball thinking lakers
I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
basketball player ugly
When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
basketball feet eight
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in. I've been shooting it ever since.
basketball jobs children
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
basketball jobs effort
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
basketball sports mind
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
basketball play tough
Center is a very tough position to play.
basketball teamwork motivational-sports
One man cannot make a team.
basketball coaching ladders
When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
basketball education people
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
basketball team victory
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
basketball giving-up player
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
basketball thinking race
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
basketball sports teamwork
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
basketball sports winning
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
basketball baby past
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off. Joseph Brodsky
basketball senior sports
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got. Joe Namath
basketball thinking play
I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got. Joe Dumars
basketball team player
On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable
basketball football golf
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. Pat Summerall
basketball lakes water
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams
basketball cheer home
The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.
basketball kids winning
Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it. Pat Summitt