Nba Quotes - Page 8

• I want to continue to do is to help these young women be successful. .. You don't just say goodbye at the end of their playing careers and end it there.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Goodbye, Successful

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• Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because you love it, not because it's work.

  Paul Westphal

  Basketball, Fun, Desire

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• I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

  Frank Layden

  Inspirational, Funny, Basketball

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• If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1934, Triumph Books

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• If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

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• My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Mistake

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• But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.76, Triumph Books

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• Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Football

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• I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, War

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• We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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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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• Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Philadelphia

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• I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

  Paul Bear Bryant, John Underwood (2007). “Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant”, p.1907, Triumph Books

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• If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Attitude

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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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• It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Mistake, Humility

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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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• 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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• Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Kids, Defense

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• Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Winning, Defense

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• I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

  Marcus Camby

  Basketball, Player, Clothes

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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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