Basketball Quotes - Page 34

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade; I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.