Quotes about basketball
basketball done alertness
"Shouda, coulda, and woulda" won't get it done. Pat Riley
basketball winning whatever-it-takes
Whatever it takes to win.
basketball team winning
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.
basketball suggestions suggestion-boxes
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
basketball coaching overcoming
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.
basketball teamwork motivational-sports
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
basketball team player
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
basketball teamwork moving
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
basketball motivation attitude
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
basketball volleyball discipline
Discipline is not a nasty word.
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It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
basketball faces steps
When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!
basketball heart warrior
The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
basketball player games
You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
basketball coaching rebound
No rebounds - no rings.
basketball motivation winning
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
basketball volleyball attitude
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
basketball motivational-sports attitude
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
basketball motivational-sports loss
Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
basketball done ifs
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
basketball play yesterday
Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important
basketball sports determination
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
basketball sports commitment
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out.
basketball football team
Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team. Phil Jackson
basketball fun winning
I probably would have no capability of absorbing a 60-defeat season as a coach. It would be a foreign experience. My whole career, even as a player, has been on winning basketball clubs and it just seems to have been a part of the make-up of what’s been given me. That’s what I’ve been given and that’s what I’ve had to deal with. Some people can make fun of it or some people can have a good time with it, or some people can resent it. It’s just what it is.
basketball winning way
The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.
basketball soul mind
I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
basketball airports games
The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
basketball sports moving
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
basketball sports balls
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
basketball philosophy player
My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.
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Basketball is sharing.
basketball simple games
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.