Basketball Quotes - Page 5

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think.

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.