Basketball Quotes - Page 11

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

  Don Meyer

  Coaching, Teach, Inspirational Basketball

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• Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

  Don Meyer

  Coaching, Shooter, Shots

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• Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

  Don Meyer

  Team, Player, Coaching

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• When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

  Allen Iverson

  Smart, Believe, Heart

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• Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

  Adolph Rupp

  Night, Coaching, Defense

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• Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

  Pat Summitt

  Loyalty, Giving, Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.192, Crown Business

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• Put the Team Before Yourself.

  Pat Summitt

  Team, Coaching, Basketball Coaching

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

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• Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

  Pat Summitt

  Winning, Coaching, Losing

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.194, Crown Business

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• I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

  Dennis Rodman

  Games, League, Mind

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• 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.

  Tex Winter

  Moving, Play, Feet

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• I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

  Dennis Rodman

  Smart, Player, Games

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• No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

  Jim Valvano

  Running, Business, Games

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• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

  Yao Ming

  Distance, Distance Relationship, Improving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

  Pat Riley

  Heart, Warrior, Nba

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

  Bill Walton

  Player, Better Person, Said

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• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  Oscar Robertson

  Jobs, Thinking, Player

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• The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

  Dennis Rodman

  Thinking, People, League

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• I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

  James Worthy

  Motivational, Parent, Trying

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• I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

  Grant Hill

  Games, Everyday, Done

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  Phil Jackson

  Nba, True Joy, True Life

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• John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

  Bill Walton

  Civilization, America, Western

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• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

  Dennis Rodman

  Taken, Being Free, Shooter

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• I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

  Jim Valvano

  Life, Laughter, Each Day

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Jumping, Trying

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

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