Basketball Quotes
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It's the craziest thing I've ever been around. I've never been on a team, coach or player, where this has happened. I just hope we can take the positives to Rhode Island and see if we can play good basketball again.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.
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How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
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I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'
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Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
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I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.
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The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.
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I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.
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We know people can beat us in our conference. That's why we have to see if we can play our best basketball over the next four games.
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
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There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
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I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.
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Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.
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I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.
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He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
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I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
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Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
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It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
