Browsing Topic Best Best Basketball Quotes

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

Do your best when no one is looking.

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don’t think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he’s the best. We don’t work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we’d beat everybody.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

I’ve had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that’s the USA national team. I’ve had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don’t think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I’ve had during those eight years. When you’ve coached at that level, you know, you’ve coached those players, it’s pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

Play the game with a smile.

You always have to give 100%,because if you don’t someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play.

The best basketball announcer is one who allows you to close your eyes.

The only way you’re going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.