Basketball Quotes - Page 3

• Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

  Jim Valvano

  Sports, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

  Doc Rivers

  Sports, Truth, Player

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• Get the kids to understand that they shouldn't worry about who makes the shot, only whether or not the shot is made

  Pete Carril

  Kids, Nba, Worry

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Player, Nba, Inspire

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• X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The team must respect what the coach is asking them to do

  Hubie Brown

  Team, Nba, Asking

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• My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

  Brad Stevens

  Time, Winning, Nba

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• I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

  Bobby Knight

  Nba, Fake, Use

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• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sports, Winning, Nba Player

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Teamwork, Im Sorry, Integrity

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• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  Larry Bird

  Winning, Balls, Matter

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• I'm chasing perfection.

  Kobe Bryant

  Athlete, Perfection, Chasing

  "What drives the driven?" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. November 21, 2010.

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• Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

  Julius Erving

  Teacher, Effort, Tasks

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

  Steve Nash

  Reality, Play, Challenges

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• I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

  Steve Nash

  Motivational, Believe, Thinking

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• Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

  Julius Erving

  Typical, Might, Pisces

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Attitude, Hard Work

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

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• My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

  Kevin Johnson

  Motivational, Responsibility, Successful

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• The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.

  Magic Johnson

  Mean, People, Important

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

  Magic Johnson

  Thinking, Medicine, Hiv

  "Magic Johnson pushes HIV awareness". Interview With Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

  Don Meyer

  Men, Nba, Advice

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• Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

  John Wooden

  Two, Three, Balls

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• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Character, Reality, I Realized

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• A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

  John Wooden

  Nba, Leader, Never Forget

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• I love New York City; I've got a gun.

  Charles Barkley

  New York, Gun, Cities

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• There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Men, Winning

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