Basketball Quotes - Page 37

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

Attitude is altitude.

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.

I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.

No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?