Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Smith

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Dean Smith

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Dean Smith

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Dean Smith

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Dean Smith

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Dean Smith

A lion never roars after a kill.

Dean Smith

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

Dean Smith

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

Dean Smith

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Dean Smith

What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Dikembe Mutombo

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Dikembe Mutombo

When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.

Dikembe Mutombo

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Edward Abbey

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

We're glad to be back. With the national championship game on Monday night, we'll be able to talk a little bit of basketball (on Tuesday).

We?re showing signs of playing our best basketball as we?re approaching March. That?s where you want to be at.

We?re just excited to still be standing. We very much look forward to playing a very good Connecticut basketball team in the next round and have some sense of understanding about what?s involved in that task and what a challenge it?s going to be.

Albert Schweitzer

Let your life be your argument.

Like coach said, we just go out there and have fun. We're all calm, poised and we make sure we have fun. I mean, basketball was made to have fun. So, if you ain't having fun, you're not going to perform.

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

LSU did a great job. We took care of their zone pretty easily, but then they played a lot of man and did a good job with it. I'm not pleased with our team's toughness. We really need to be strong on the court. It was a good lesson for us, but not at all the kind of basketball we play.

Maine's won three in a row and they're shooting the heck out of the basketball. They're shooting 53 percent from three in the last three games so those guys are on fire right now. We just happened to catch those guys on two nights when they didn't shoot it very well.

Lynden is a good basketball team. There is no question they were better than us. That certainly wasn't the best effort we had.

Kevin Young

We are on scholarship to play basketball. We're not on scholarship to go to journalism school and write papers. We're here to play basketball. It's like a job. You have a choice. You can either quit or keep playing and I hope everybody keeps playing.

To be where we're at is great. But we still have a lot of basketball to go. We sure would like to be where we're at. That's a good spot to be in. But our next challenge is Oregon State.

Vince Vaughn

I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

Rebel Wilson

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

Dave Grohl

I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

When I was a kid, I went to school in a small town. I wanted to play basketball - that was my dream.

When I got fired, I was a little disappointed with the timing of it. Other than that, it's all been good memories. I had some of my best basketball moments here at the arena.

We did this seven, eight months ago. We decided we wanted Clint Swan. He was at the top of our list... I don't want to introduce a new basketball coach for a long time.

Paul Dunn

We did the things that got us the big lead in the first quarter. The game of basketball is a game of runs and we had the final run. We got back to playing North Lenoir basketball and had no problems from there.

We don't have a lot to hang our hat on. We're economically deprived. Hey, I'm from Clay County. I know what basketball means here.