Nba Quotes - Page 14

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.

I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else