26 quotes found
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.”
“The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not”
“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch usanything more than that would be too much...”
“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had ...”
“In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then when I entered high school, hell yeah, I laughed. The guy I vo...”
“Its not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be ...”
“Toward the end of Carmel's life, the perception of super talls shifted dramatically, thanks largely to televised NBA games, By 1975, pretty much everyone had seen super tall people on TV, in the co...”
“His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Ce...”
“Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?”
“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”
“Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinterested away-from-home crowd while warming up. This curious event occurred last March, just before ...”
“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker's son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to ...”
“My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.”
“I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them f...”
“Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.”
“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”
“My swag was phenomenal.”
“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly ...”
“Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.”
