Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Doug Flutie

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

Dot Jones

I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

Doug Collins

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Doug Collins

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

Doug Collins

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Doug Collins

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Doug Collins

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Don Imus

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

Don Haskins

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.

Don Andrews

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Donald Glover

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Donald Glover

There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Ally Carter

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

Allen Iverson

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Allen Iverson

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.

Allen Iverson

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.

Allen Iverson

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.