Browsing Topic Best Good Basketball Quotes

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I don’t try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys… I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

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

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

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.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

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

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

I know I’m never as good or bad as one single performance. I’ve never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I’ve always been able to leave the game at the arena.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

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.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

Winning is like deodorant – it comes up and a lot of things don’t stink.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

I don’t hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that’s a plus.

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass.

Play off your great player… great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.