Basketball Quotes - Page 46

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

We are unselfish and we trust each other

The pick and roll is more about bodies and eyes then speed and being fast

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.

One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.

Pluto is not a planet, but I am.

Discipline is the whole key to being successful. We all get 24 hours each day. That's the only fair thing; it's the only thing that's equal. What we do with those 24 hours is up to us.

One thing you gotta know about Roy. The way I always saw myself, is I'm just like you. In the ring, I have a gift...That gift ain't on the basketball court. That gift ain't at home. You understand me? That gift is in the ring.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

Bad shooters are always open

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

Whatever it takes to win.

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.