Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

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

Doc Rivers

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

Doc Rivers

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

Doc Rivers

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

Doc Rivers

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Doc Rivers

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

Derrek Lee

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

Derrek Lee

I miss basketball every now and then.

Del Harris

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

Amar'e Stoudemire

There's been injuries to where my perseverance may have gotten overlooked-just my hard work and what I bring to a franchise and to a team may have gotten overlooked. But it's a matter of staying professional and playing the game of basketball and ultimately doing whatever it takes to win a championship for your teammates.

Andrew Weil

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

Chuck Daly

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Chuck Daly

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Chuck Daly

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Chuck Daly

The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Chuck Daly

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

Chuck Daly

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Chuck Daly

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Chuck Connors

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Ansel Elgort

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Andrew Bogut

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

Alonzo Mourning

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

Alonzo Mourning

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

Alonzo Mourning

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Alonzo Mourning

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

Alonzo Mourning

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

Danny Pudi

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

David Foster Wallace

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

Dave Bautista

Basketballs dont hold grudges!