Maryland Basketball Quotes

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo! ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player. ~ Doug Collins

I never let our players get satisfied, I never let our Coaches get satisfied, I was never satisfied. We can always do it better. ~ John Wooden

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball. ~ Les Claypool

I am the number one Ninja and I have killed all the Shoguns in front of me. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations. ~ Jim Calhoun

It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton. ~ John W. Rogers, Jr.

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops. ~ Alonzo Mourning

In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out. ~ Daniel Wu

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know. ~ Dennis Rodman

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important ~ Pat Riley

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride. ~ Allen Iverson

Thought all the wilderness of America was in the West till the Ghost of the Susquehanna showed me different. No, there is a wilderness in the East; it's the same wilderness Ben Franklin plodded in the oxcart days when he was postmaster, the same as it was when George Washington was a wildbuck Indian-fighter, when Daniel Boone told stories by Pennsylvania lamps and promised to find the Gap, when Bradford built his road and men whooped her up in log cabins. There were not great Arizona spaces for the little man, just the bushy wilderness of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, the backroads, the black-tar roads that curve among the mournful rivers like Susquehanna, Monongahela, old Potomac and Monocacy. ~ Jack Kerouac

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person. ~ Kevin Durant

Too much coffee. Too much coffee and Gatorade. It's a hell of a mix. If you're ever tired in the morning, just try that mix, and tell me what you think. ~ Kevin Garnett

We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team. ~ Oscar Robertson

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself. ~ Rick Pitino

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. ~ Bobby Knight

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise. ~ Dean Smith

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point. ~ Stephen Curry

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands! ~ Bill Russell

I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name? ~ Baron Davis

That's what keeps me humble because I know my background, know what my mother went through. I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do. My mom always says and my friends all say, 'You're just a very low-maintenance guy'. I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life. ~ LeBron James

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable. ~ Michael Sandel

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform. ~ Terrell Owens

Everything can happen in the playoffs. ~ Red Auerbach

I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it. ~ Alan G. Poindexter

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game. ~ Lon Kruger

Basketball is sharing. ~ Phil Jackson

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it ~ Steve Alford

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. ~ Dennis Rodman