Basketball Quotes - Page 12

• If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

  John Brady

  Team, Coaching, Spoiled

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• Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

  Jim Valvano

  Giving, Looks, Able

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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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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• Coaching is preparation.

  Pete Carril

  Preparation, Coaching, Basketball Coaching

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• If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

  Allen Iverson

  Team, Blessed, Mean

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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• If you're going to have sex, use a condom.

  Dennis Rodman

  Sex, Use, Condom

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• So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games

  Geno Auriemma

  Winning, Player, Years

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• I talked about my family, my family's so important.

  Jim Valvano

  Important, My Family

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• 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?

  Jim Harrick

  Hate, Love You, Kids

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• When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

  Oscar Robertson

  Player, People, Different

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• If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

  Zeljko Obradovic

  Winning, Games, Play

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• One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.

  Toni Kukoc

  Player, Two, Make Happy

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• I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

  Jack Ramsay

  Believe, Winning, Practice

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• I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Motivational Sports, Thinking

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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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• The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

  Dennis Rodman

  Athlete, Doors, Professional Athlete

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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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• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Team, Coaching, Coaches

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• 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

  Motivational, Believe, Heart

  InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. February 14, 2004.

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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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• I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

  Marla Maples

  Stars, Queens, Team

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

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• If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Team, World

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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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 think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

  Sue Wicks

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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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.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Motivational, Smart, Player

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