College Basketball Quotes

• He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wise

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  Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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  What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

  Dean Smith

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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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, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dream, Hard Work

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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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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• Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

  Dean Smith

  Basketball, Teamwork, Player

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• Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

  Sara Bareilles

  Law Of Attraction, Motivational Basketball, Want

  Song: Uncharted, Album: Kaleidoscope Heart, 2010

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• A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

  Bill Maher

  Teenage Girl, Flu, Shots

  "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Mistake, Coaching

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• If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

  Dean Smith

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sports, Past

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• To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

  Holly Johnson

  Basketball, Player, College

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• I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

  Aselin Debison

  Basketball, Dream, Winning

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• When you're 18, when you're at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can't do that anymore.

  Drew Magary

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, College, Ohio State

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• College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

  Ashley Graham

  Basketball, College, Challenges

  Source: awesomesportsproject.com

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• Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Moving, Blessed

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

  Len Elmore

  Basketball, Team, College

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it's made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn't it? It sort of represents the school. It's when you go back; it's at the beginning of the school year.

  Frank Deford

  Basketball, Football, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We did have three go to the YMCA.

  Abe Lemons

  Basketball, College, Ymca

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• I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, College, Parent

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• The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Athlete, Winning

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• The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

  Bill James

  Inspirational, Basketball, College

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