Nba Quotes - Page 18

• What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Games, Defense

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• I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hate, Games

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• I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Night, Practice

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• You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

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

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Trying, Different

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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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• 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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• Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Decision, Technique

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• Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball

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• Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• Your decisions reveal your priorities

  Jeff Van Gundy

  Basketball, Priorities, Decision

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• If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, School, Ideas

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• The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Kids, Slides

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• Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

  Julius Erving

  Makeup, Turns, Turn-on

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• Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team

  Gregg Popovich

  Basketball, Team, Play

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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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• '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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• Winning is more related to good defense than good offense

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Winning, Defense

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• A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

  Jack Ramsay

  Basketball, Player, Skills

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• The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

  Ryan Lochte

  Swimming, Nfl, Community

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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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