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I tell people that the scales lie. You may have played basketball and weighed 175 pounds, with a 30-inch waist, back when you were in college. And you may still weigh 175 at 55. But you probably have a 35-inch waist and you've probably lost 30 or 40 pounds of muscle -- and gained 30 or 40 pounds of fat. The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.Collection: Basketball
A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play againstCollection: Basketball
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.Collection: Basketball
I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defenderCollection: Basketball
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.Collection: Basketball
What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shotsCollection: Basketball
There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.Collection: Basketball
Good basketball always starts with good defense!Collection: Basketball
My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.Collection: Basketball
Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.Collection: Basketball
A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.Collection: Basketball
Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.Collection: Basketball
You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.Collection: Basketball
Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.Collection: Basketball
Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.Collection: Basketball
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.Collection: Basketball
Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.Collection: Basketball
Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.Collection: Basketball
I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.Collection: Basketball
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.Collection: Basketball
Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.Collection: Basketball
I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.Collection: Basketball
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.Collection: Basketball
That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.Collection: Basketball
For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.Collection: Basketball
I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.Collection: Basketball
Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.Collection: Basketball
Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.Collection: Basketball
We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.Collection: Basketball
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallowCollection: Basketball
...you can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.Collection: Basketball
If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.Collection: Basketball
When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.Collection: Basketball
You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.Collection: Basketball
Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.Collection: Basketball
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.Collection: Basketball
Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.Collection: Basketball
Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.Collection: Basketball
You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.Collection: Basketball
People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.Collection: Basketball
I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.Collection: Basketball
You know what's amazing to me? America. There have been so many people who have stepped up, and I'm just proud to be an American. Yeah, there were some mistakes made, but I don't play the blame game. Let's move forward and rebuild New Orleans.Collection: Basketball
You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.Collection: Basketball
I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.Collection: Basketball
I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)Collection: Basketball
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.Collection: Basketball
Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.Collection: Basketball
You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.Collection: Basketball