Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Connors

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Jimmy Connors

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Jimmy Connors

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jim Nantz

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

George Lucas

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

George Karl

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

George Karl

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

George Karl

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

George Karl

I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

Emily Rios

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

Jimmy Fallon

After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

John Cullum

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Joel Osteen

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Manu Ginobili

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

T. S. Eliot

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

Rick Pitino

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Rick Pitino

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

Rick Pitino

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Rick Pitino

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Rick Pitino

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

Rick Pitino

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

Rick Pitino

The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

Rick Pitino

At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

Rick Pitino

The key to coaching is not what you do, but the way you do it. The intangibles, the motivational parts of the game are the most important facets of it.

Rick Pitino

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.

Rick Pitino

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Rick Pitino

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

Rick Pitino

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

Rick Pitino

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Rick Pitino

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine

Rick Pitino

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

Rick Pitino

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself