Nba Quotes - Page 33

• Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Practice, Play

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• I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Winning

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• People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, People

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• I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Running

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• The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

  Bill Bradley

  Sports, Sunset, Winning

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.108, RosettaBooks

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• In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Important, Troops

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• Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

  Charles Barkley

  Funny, Basketball, Men

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Sports, Teamwork

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• There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Play, One Thing

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• Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Giving

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• Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Hate, Today's Society

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• One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Kids, Player

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• I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness

  Tom Izzo

  Basketball, Taken, Guy

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• Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Long, Goal

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• Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Play, Magic

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• True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Motivation, Play

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• Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Choices, Determined

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• Those to whom defense is not important will have the best seat in the game

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Games, Important

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• Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

  Rick Majerus

  Basketball, Mismatch, Beats

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• It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Organization, Ambassadors, Easy

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• We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Order, Strict

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• I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Bridges, Eras

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• Get away from my house. What do you want?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, House, Want

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