Top basketball Quotes Collection - Page 5
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The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.Collection: Basketball
I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.Collection: Basketball
By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.Collection: Basketball
It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practiceCollection: Basketball
Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.Collection: Basketball
The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.Collection: Basketball
In evaluating the way in which ball possessions are gained during the course of a game, we find that 60 to 80 percent of the possessions are gained by rebounding and after an opponent's score. Twenty percent come from opponents's error, and only 5 percent of the possessions come from steals and interceptions. A study of the way ball possessions are gained makes it seem highly impractical to base pressure defense on interceptions and steals.Collection: Basketball
We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.Collection: Basketball
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.Collection: Basketball
I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.Collection: Basketball
I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.Collection: Basketball
I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.Collection: Basketball
I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.Collection: Basketball
People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.Collection: Basketball
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice.Collection: Basketball
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success.Collection: Basketball
Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?Collection: Basketball
I want to teach the post basic moves: turn and bank; drop-step and shoot a power layup; turn to the middle, pump-fake, one-bounce layup; and I want to teach five power moves. They are power layup straight up; pump-fake one bounce to the other side power layup; pogo when you catch it up high, keep it up high, and shoot it; and then the two-hand follow shot.Collection: Basketball
I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.Collection: Basketball
Basketball was always something I felt I could dominate, something I could control.Collection: Basketball
Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.Collection: Basketball
Specialists can never practice their specialties too much. The danger is in not practicing enough. Make that mistake, and soon you may not be in the specialty business anymore.Collection: Basketball
You can't be a good leader without good character.Collection: Basketball
Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.Collection: Basketball
It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourselfCollection: Basketball
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit themCollection: Basketball
What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourselfCollection: Basketball
There's no other state, none, that's as connected to their basketball program as this one. Because those other states have other programs. Michigan has Michigan State, California has UCLA, North Carolina has Duke. It's Kentucky throughout this whole state, and that's what makes us unique.Collection: Basketball
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive thatCollection: Basketball
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.Collection: Basketball
I'm playing the guys who are going to fight. If you're not into this, I'm going to someone elseCollection: Basketball
What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?Collection: Basketball
You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy playCollection: Basketball
You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the gameCollection: Basketball
Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.Collection: Basketball
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I canCollection: Basketball
If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.Collection: Basketball
We win because we play together as a team.Collection: Basketball
I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.Collection: Basketball
I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.Collection: Basketball
This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.Collection: Basketball
One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time.Collection: Basketball
Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.Collection: Basketball
The Hall of Fame has strong people.Collection: Basketball
I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.Collection: Basketball
There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitutionCollection: Basketball
Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.Collection: Basketball
Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.Collection: Basketball
We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.Collection: Basketball