Basketball Team Quotes - Page 5

• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Basketball, Stars

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• I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stress, Player

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• It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Teach

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• I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Basketball, Coaching, Achieve

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• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticism

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• If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Coaching, Overcoming

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• Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Son

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• Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Team, Differences

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• If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

  J. B. Smoove

  Basketball, Team, Guy

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

  Bob Costas

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

  Jonathan Groff

  Basketball, Mom, Brother

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• Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs and do film edits for the basketball team and stuff like that because I was always just into doing that.

  Jesse Lacey

  Basketball, Team, Stupid

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• 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.

  Steve Ballmer

  Basketball, Running, Team

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

  Geena Davis

  Basketball, Girl, Sports

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of times like a lot of the basketball players, not to be getting on basketball, but, with a lot of the basketball players you might have one superstar on the team, and they're not willing to play up to par with the way he is, so they don't make it. But then you have some celebrities on the basketball team, and they don't know how to get along with each other!

  Ginuwine

  Basketball, Team, Player

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”

  John C. Maxwell

  Basketball, Attitude, Giving Up

  Christian Book Previews Interview, www.christianbookpreviews.com.

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• Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

  Barack Obama

  Basketball, Girl, Team

  "As if nothing had changed in our nation since last February, an Army general, a colour guard and military jets introduce the Superbowl" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Team, Helping

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• Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

  Lon Kruger

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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