Basketball Quotes - Page 47

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

I like my sex the way I play basketball, one on one with as little dribbling as possible.

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can't miss. That's the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they're trying to do to you. It's awesome.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.