Basketball Quotes - Page 60

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

It's so important to know where you are.

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

Basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.

I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

The interesting thing about basketball is that it is played recreationally all over the world in playgrounds where people shoot hoops. Perhaps it is because of this that the look of the game seems to have been able to cross over into streetwear more easily than that of some sports that are confined to more specialist arenas.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.