Nba Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Decision, Technique

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• The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Greatness, Weakness

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Basketball, Kids, 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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• Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Believe, Discipline

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.75, Crown Business

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• The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Quality, Shots

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• Success doesn't stop when you get there

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Trying, Obstacles

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Failing, Has Beens

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