Nba Quotes - Page 13

• Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Character, Player

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• You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Player, Needs

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• Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Worry, Being The Best

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• There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, People, Better Off

  Larry Bird (1990). “Drive: The Story of My Life”, Bantam Books

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• Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Loss, Teammate

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• The best teams play for each other, not with each other

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Play, Teammate

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• I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Thinking, Player

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• You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Mother, Kids

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• Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Working Together

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• You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Skills

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• Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Winning, Defense

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• 'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Mean, Play Hard

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• I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Player, Talking

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• Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Team, Play

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• What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Winning, Helping

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• When the legs go, the heart soon follows

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Heart, Legs

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• The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Kids, Slides

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• If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, School, Ideas

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• Your decisions reveal your priorities

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Priorities, Decision

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• Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball

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