Stoudamire Nba Quotes

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself. ~ Magic Johnson

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more. ~ John Wooden

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played. ~ Bob Cousy

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. ~ Oscar Robertson

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. ~ Andrew Bogut

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do ~ Doc Rivers

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team ~ Don Meyer

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals ~ Brad Stevens

They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game. ~ Stu Jackson

I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience. ~ Carmelo Anthony

Do your best when no one is looking. ~ Bob Cousy

So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way. ~ Kevin Garnett

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. ~ Chris Paul

Honestly, I think winning changes all of that. It doesn't matter where you are - it could be Timbuktu - if you win, people will watch, they'll follow and they'll support. It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players. Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They're not the biggest markets. ~ Masai Ujiri

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man. ~ Blake Griffin

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing. ~ Derrick Rose

We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes. ~ David Stern

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help. ~ Jeremy Lin

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had ~ LeBron James

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game. ~ Dolph Schayes

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere ... It's an unbelievable feeling. ~ Micky Arison

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game. ~ Bill Walton

There is an old Yiddish phrase I find apropos - but not by choice: "Man plans, God laughs." I am a prime example. My life was pretty much laid out for me. I was a basketball star my entire childhood, destined to be an NBA player for the Boston Celtics. But in my very first preseason game, Big Burt Wesson slammed into me and ruined my knee. I tried gamely to come back, but there is a big difference between gamely and effectively. My career was over before I hit the parquet floor. I ~ Harlan Coben

For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs. ~ Steve Kerr

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook. ~ Samantha Power

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win. ~ Carmelo Anthony

I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game. ~ Rico Love

I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go. ~ Manu Ginobili

I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal. ~ Nate Robinson

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber. ~ Chandler Parsons

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him. ~ Amar'e Stoudemire

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars. ~ Edward De Bono

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail ~ Michael Jordan

When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA. ~ Allen Iverson

They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning. ~ LeBron James

It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! ~ Michael Jordan

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand. ~ Jason Collins

There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them. ~ Scott Brooks