Basketball Quotes - Page 53

It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.

The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money.

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

It's easier for me to get ready for a game on the road because you're expected to lose when you play away from home. That's a challenge to right there and that perks my competitive juices.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

If nobody will help you do it alone!

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.