Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Russell

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

Bill Russell

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Bill Russell

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Bill Parcells

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Bill Parcells

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

Bill Parcells

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Bill Parcells

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

Bill Laimbeer

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

Bill Laimbeer

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

Bill Laimbeer

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

Bill Laimbeer

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

Bill Laimbeer

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

Bill Laimbeer

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

Bill Laimbeer

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

Bill Laimbeer

We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

Bill Laimbeer

We were able to get after the rebounds. We were able to control the paint. We were able to be physical down there.

Bill Laimbeer

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

Bill Laimbeer

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

Bill Laimbeer

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

Bill Laimbeer

The Finals are about a test of wills.

Edward Hirsch

A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

Eddie Murphy

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

Eddie Murphy

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

Ed Bradley

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

David Robinson

Defense is what matters. Scoring doesn't interest me.

David Robinson

Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.

David Robinson

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

David Brin

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

Bengie Molina

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

Benicio Del Toro

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Baron Davis

I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?

Baron Davis

For me this was never a money issue, it was about being rich in your heart. To come home, and to be in the place where your dream first started, 15 minutes away from where my grandfather built my first basketball court, is a dream come true.