Basketball Quotes - Page 50

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.

In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills

Heart is what separates the good from the great.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.

Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball - you can figure out things for your hurt feelings.

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That's what I'm about.

Center is a very tough position to play.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.