Good Basketball Quotes - Page 3

• Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

  Elgin Baylor

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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• The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Player, Practice

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• Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Winning, Deodorant

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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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• Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

  Dave Barry

  Basketball, Past, Eight

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• My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Hard Work

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• Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

  John Brady

  Basketball, Coaching, Defense

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• I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  Denny Crum

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Player

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• Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

  Billy Donovan

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

  Doc Rivers

  Basketball, Sports, Team

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• In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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• You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Missing, Shots

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• I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Home, Thinking

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

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• Do your best when no one is looking.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Nba Player, Famous Basketball

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• Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.

  Sam Cassell

  Basketball, Dog, Team

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• Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Player, Becoming

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

  Brad Stevens

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  Stephen Curry

  Butterfly, Thinking, Inspirational Basketball

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• Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

  Bill Goldberg

  Basketball, Jobs, Athlete

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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