Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.
Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game
If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.
My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
It's almost like we have ESPN.
Every day you teach attitude.
I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.
There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that
Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with
There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution
Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great
Do your best when no one is looking.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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