Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Newell

Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

Pete Maravich

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.

Pete Maravich

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Pete Maravich

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

Pete Maravich

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

Pete Maravich

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Pete Maravich

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Pete Maravich

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

Pete Maravich

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

Pete Rose

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Joss Whedon

I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Kobe Bryant

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

Kobe Bryant

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Kobe Bryant

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

Kobe Bryant

You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

Kobe Bryant

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

Kobe Bryant

It's just a matter of getting those legs back.

Kobe Bryant

People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.

Kobe Bryant

I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.

Kobe Bryant

Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

Kobe Bryant

I love the weather, I love my '63 droptop Impala, I love the 405, and I love my guys.

Kobe Bryant

A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.

Kobe Bryant

It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.

Kobe Bryant

I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.

Kobe Bryant

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever.

Kobe Bryant

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.

Kobe Bryant

I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

Kobe Bryant

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every time I step out there on the floor. That's motivation enough for me to go out there and play well.

Kobe Bryant

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's fun. I'm comfortable with it.

Kobe Bryant

You just stay patient, that's all.

Kobe Bryant

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace - I'd play anywhere.

Kobe Bryant

I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

Kobe Bryant

I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.