Basketball Quotes - Page 99

At the end of the day, no matter how well you score, you've got to be able to stop people

I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely, I always knew I could grab that orange pill and go hoop. I could go and dunk on somebody. If things weren't going right, I could make a basket and feel better.

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.