Basketball Quotes - Page 74

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

You can't win without the ball.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

Basketball, unlike football with its prescribed routes, is an improvisational game, similar to jazz. If someone drops a note, someone else must step into the vacuum and drive the beat that sustains the team.

My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.

After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself.

We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.