Basketball Quotes - Page 10

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.

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

I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.