Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Brubeck

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

David Stern

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

David Stern

It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.

David Halberstam

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Darryl Dawkins

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

Darryl Dawkins

When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

Doc Rivers

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Doc Rivers

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Doc Rivers

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Doc Rivers

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

Doc Rivers

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Doc Rivers

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

Doc Rivers

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Doc Rivers

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Doc Rivers

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

Derrek Lee

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

Derrek Lee

I miss basketball every now and then.

Del Harris

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

Amar'e Stoudemire

There's been injuries to where my perseverance may have gotten overlooked-just my hard work and what I bring to a franchise and to a team may have gotten overlooked. But it's a matter of staying professional and playing the game of basketball and ultimately doing whatever it takes to win a championship for your teammates.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'

Anna Quindlen

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.

Cindy Nelson

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

Cindy Crawford

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Chuck Noll

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

Andre Iguodala

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

Andrew Weil

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

Chuck Daly

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Chuck Daly

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Chuck Daly

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Chuck Daly

The first shot does not beat you.