Basketball Quotes - Page 65

I've never been afraid to fail.

Because I want every kid to be viewed as a person rather than as a member of a certain race does not mean that I'm not black enough. . . . Do they want me to be positive just for black kids and negative for everybody else?

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

It doesn't matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.

Michael Jordan once said that the most peaceful moments of his life were on a basketball court, because that's the only place he knew exactly what to do. And to me the most peaceful moments in my ministry are in the pulpit because that's when I really know what I'm going to do.

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end.

I'm fine with selecting Curry because the season he's had has been incredible.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young [sons] become men.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

I like being by myself.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.