Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Majerus

My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.

Rick Majerus

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

Rick Majerus

You must have a passion to coach.

Rick Majerus

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

Rick Majerus

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

Rick Majerus

Blocking out is everyday, every drill, all the time. We run sprints every time someone does not blockout.

Rick Majerus

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

Rick Majerus

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

Rick Majerus

Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

Tom Robbins

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

Tom Landry

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

Tom Landry

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

Tony Gonzalez

Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.

Tony Gonzalez

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

Toni Kukoc

One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.

Tommy Tune

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

Steve Harvey

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

Steve Alford

I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's third, fourth, or fifth down the line.

Steve Alford

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

Steve Alford

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

Stephon Marbury

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

Stephon Marbury

Don't get me wrong - I love Jason Kidd. He's a great point guard (But) how am I comparing myself to him when I think I'm the best point guard to play basketball? That doesn't make any sense. I mean, how can I sit here and compare myself to somebody if I already think I'm the best?I'm telling you what it is: I know I'm the best point guard in the NBA. I don't need anybody else to tell me that. When I go on the basketball court, if I think about what you're all saying, I'll lose my mind.

Stephen Dunn

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Steven Chu

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

Sue Wicks

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

Sue Wicks

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

Sue Wicks

Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

Sue Wicks

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.

Sue Wicks

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Stu Jackson

The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

Stu Jackson

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

Steven Yeun

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.