Basketball Quotes - Page 18

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?

Because there are no fours.

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

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

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Help your players to control their emotions - do this through example.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.