Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Malone

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

Karl Malone

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

Karl Malone

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Karl Malone

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

Karl Malone

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

Karl Malone

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

Pat Summerall

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

Pat Williams

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

Pat Williams

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

Pat Summitt

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

Pat Summitt

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

Pat Summitt

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

Pat Summitt

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Pat Summitt

Put the Team Before Yourself.

Pat Summitt

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

Pat Summitt

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Oscar Robertson

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Oscar Robertson

The thing about it is almost everyone could pass that way, but we were kept from doing it by our coaches.

Oscar Robertson

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

Oscar Robertson

There's so many young peoople who start to play basketball and never learn the fundamentals.

At the end of the season, (university president) Dr. (Charles) Dougherty and I will take a look at where we are and where we stand for the future. ... We need to put an established product and winner on the men's basketball court.

Taurean Green

That's every team's dream, to get to the Final Four and win the national championship. Just the excitement, the atmosphere. That's what you play college basketball for.

That's a pretty good basketball team. We were very fortunate to win, especially away from home. I thought everyone stepped up tonight with Griffin hurt.

Eli Manning

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

B. C. Forbes

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Ben Silbermann

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Ashley Judd

And it blew my mind when I started to get wind of the fact that they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one.

Mike Krzyzewski

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Mike Krzyzewski

I didn't miss any games, but Coach Knight came out and spent three days with my family in Chicago when my dad passed away. I came back and played and it was good therapy for me. Having a basketball family and a coach who understood and actually became like a father figure for that time was comforting to me, and I'm sure that will be comforting to Coleman.

Shaquille O'Neal

When I first came in, I partied and had a good time. I used to spend $500,000 on chains that don't make no sense. Then I started having babies. I don't do the bull**** no more.

Shaquille O'Neal

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

Shaquille O'Neal

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.