Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Arrington

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

Michael Bamberger

Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

Michael B. Jordan

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

Ralph Miller

When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

Ralph Miller

We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.

Ralph Miller

In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.

Raekwon

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Shane Battier

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.

Serena Williams

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Sean Astin

I was about 14, and my friend's stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son - who was more into basketball - didn't want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.

Michael Waltrip

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

Sherman Alexie

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Sherman Alexie

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

Sherman Alexie

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

Scott Caan

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

Ray Allen

I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.

Ray Allen

When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed

Mehmet Okur

Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

John Milton

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

John Wayne

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

John Thorn

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

John Wooden

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

John Wooden

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

John Wooden

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

John Wooden

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

John Wooden

Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.

John Starks

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

John Starks

My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.

John Starks

I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

Rafael Nadal

It's important for the young players to practice other ball games as well, basketball or table tennis. On the tennis court, you can improve your eye through a kind of overexertion.

Nolan North

My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

Nastia Liukin

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.