Basketball Team Quotes - Page 4

• We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

  Chris Bosh

  Basketball, Team, Errors

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• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

  Marla Maples

  Basketball, Stars, Queens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

  George Raveling

  Inspirational, Basketball, Fall

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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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• Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Recovery, Coaching

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• Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Coaching, Spacing

  "Oklahoma City Adds Precision to Its Already Potent Offense" by Beckley Mason, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.

  Billy Donovan

  Basketball, Coaching, Hustle

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Stress, Team

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• Nobody's more important than the team.

  Rejean Houle

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Athlete

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Basketball, Ucla

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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• Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

  Joe B. Hall

  Basketball, Team, Order

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• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

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

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• Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

  Al McGuire

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

  Bill Walton

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, Journey

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Choices, Coaching

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• A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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