Quotes and Sayings About Basketball
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
-- Aaron Staton -
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
-- Adam Carolla -
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
-- Adam Carolla -
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
-- Adam Silver -
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
-- Adam Yauch -
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.
-- Adolph Rupp -
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
-- Adolph Rupp -
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
-- Adolph Rupp -
I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.
-- Adolph Rupp -
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
-- Adolph Rupp -
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
-- Al Kaline -
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
-- Al McGuire -
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
-- Al McGuire -
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
-- Al McGuire -
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
-- Al McGuire -
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
-- Al McGuire -
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
-- Al McGuire -
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
-- Al McGuire -
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
-- Al McGuire -
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
-- Al McGuire -
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
-- Al McGuire -
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
-- Al McGuire -
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
-- Al McGuire -
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
-- Al McGuire
