Basketball Quotes - Page 3

• You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

  Pat Summitt

  Nba, Rooms, Persons

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.193, Crown Business

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• Coaches win practices, players win games

  Pete Carril

  Winning, Player, Practice

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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

  Kids, Nba, 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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  You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

  Phil Jackson

  Nba, People, Inspire

  Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.16, Penguin

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• Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

  Bill Belichick

  Character, Nba, Ceilings

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• You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

  Bill Parcells

  Team, Winning, Nba

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• If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

  Billy Donovan

  Nba, Rebound, Picks

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• You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sports, Winning, Nba Player

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• The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

  Red Auerbach

  Teamwork, Im Sorry, Integrity

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• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  Larry Bird

  Winning, Balls, Matter

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• I'm chasing perfection.

  Kobe Bryant

  Athlete, Perfection, Chasing

  "What drives the driven?" by Dave McMenamin, www.espn.com. November 21, 2010.

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• My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

  Charles Barkley

  Character, Reality, I Realized

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• I love New York City; I've got a gun.

  Charles Barkley

  New York, Gun, Cities

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• The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

  Larry Bird

  White, Nba, Guy

  "Bird: NBA 'a black man's game'". www.espn.com. June 10, 2004.

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• There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Men, Winning

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• Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

  Julius Erving

  Teacher, Effort, Tasks

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

  Julius Erving

  Typical, Might, Pisces

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Perfect, Trying

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

  Julius Erving

  Commitment, Buying, Operations

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Julius Erving

  Nba, Games, Competition

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Teenage, Thinking

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

  Julius Erving

  Team, Wings, Role Models

  Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

  Kevin Garnett

  Beautiful, Slides, Just Saying

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

  Kevin Garnett

  Boston, Drills

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• Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

  Kevin Garnett

  Jobs, Want, Littles

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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