Quotes about basketball
basketball soccer sports
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
basketball live-in-the-moment moments
Live in the moment that you are in. Al McGuire
basketball winning nuts
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
basketball player ifs
If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
basketball winning talent
Can't win without talent, you know.
basketball mass dean
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
basketball practice coaching
You better have great practices.
basketball beautiful next
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
basketball new-york fall
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
basketball winning nuts
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
basketball life-is moments
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
basketball believe past
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
basketball boss trying
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
basketball people elevators
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
basketball stars graves
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
basketball winning important
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
basketball brother nice
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.
basketball hurt long
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
basketball dirty ankles
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
basketball guy other-guys
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
basketball night saturday
Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
basketball jobs player
If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
basketball oxford common-sense
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
basketball war winning
Winning is only important in war and surgery.
basketball freshman sophomore
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
basketball college parent
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
basketball missing
God didn't miss any of us.
basketball guy paint
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
basketball philosophy class
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
basketball girl hair
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
basketball kids house
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
basketball life-is
Life is what you allow yourself not to see.
basketball profession
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.