Nba Quotes - Page 9

• Your decisions reveal your priorities

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Priorities, Decision

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

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Worry, Being The Best

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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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• 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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• Heart is what separates the good from the great.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Heart, Gymnastics

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• I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, People, Good Coaches

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• We win because we play together as a team.

  John Havlicek

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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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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• Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Two, Feet

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

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Nba Championships, Philadelphia

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• In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, True Joy, True Life

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