Nba Quotes - Page 22

• Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Love You, Player

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• You have to have a mentality. This is a business. This ain't hanging out having a good time

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Good Times, Having A Good Time

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• You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Running, People

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• In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes

  Tom Thibodeau

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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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

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Team, Commitment

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• A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

  Bill Parcells

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

  Bill Parcells (1995). “Finding a Way to Win: The Principles of Leadership, Teamwork, and Motivation”, Doubleday Books

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• Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

  David Blatt

  Basketball, Team, Sacrifice

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• If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

  Gary Dornhoefer

  Funny, Basketball, Clouds

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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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• 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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• The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

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• It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Talking, Sneakers

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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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• 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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• It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

  Chuck Daly

  Basketball, Mistake, Humility

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• It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Jobs

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• Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

  Bill Walton

  Funny, Basketball, Player

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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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• A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Player, Light

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• Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Basketball, Stars

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