I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.
Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.
When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.
For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Our conditioning program begins the first day of class. The running portion is very demanding. It has physiological advantages, as well as psychological advantages.
I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.
I was a bit of a tomboy, so I played softball and basketball. Then I was also a cheerleader. And I played flute too.
People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.
I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.
Leadership starts at the top.
To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.
The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.
Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.
Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time spent learning about people.
First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.
