Basketball Quotes - Page 40

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.

I don't play basketball as good as I used to and I hate losing, so I'd rather not be seen in public until I make sure my A game is up.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

Endangered species are our friends.

Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.

I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

Me having a beautiful wife and great family and friends around me, all the money I've got, all the things that I've got, a Ferrari that I just ripped the top off of and turned into a convertible, the rings I got, the two mansions on the water, a master's in criminal justice, I'm a cop, plus I look good. So me shooting 40 percent at the foul line is just God's way of saying that nobody's perfect. If I shot 90 percent from the line, it just wouldn't be right.

I started out as a young Ninja and killed all of the Shoguns. I am a Shogun now and I'm holding my spot. There probably won't be another Shogun after this.

If you don't like me, there must be something wrong with you.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Coaching is preparation.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.