Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regis Philbin

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

Willie Mays

"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

Woody Hayes

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.

Woody Hayes

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.

Woody Allen

Life is tough and it's tough whether you're famous or not famous. And in the end it's probably better to be famous because the perks are better. You get better seats at the basketball game, and you get better tables and reservations places. If I call a doctor on Saturday morning I can get him. There's a lot of things, indulgences that you don't get, if you're not famous. Now I'm not saying it's fair. But I can't say that I don't enjoy it.

Woody Allen

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

William James

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Will Ferrell

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

Sarah Palin

Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

Saoirse Ronan

I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping.

Saoirse Ronan

I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

Red Auerbach

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Red Auerbach

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Red Auerbach

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep taking it. So he misses...so what?

Red Auerbach

When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

Red Auerbach

Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

Red Auerbach

You can't win without the ball.

Red Auerbach

If you're keeping score, win!

Red Auerbach

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

Red Auerbach

Everything can happen in the playoffs.

Red Auerbach

I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

Red Auerbach

If they think we've got an edge, we've got an edge.

Red Auerbach

All records are made to be broken.

Red Auerbach

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

Red Auerbach

You've got to avoid overcoaching. You've got to avoid talking too much. You've got to avoid showing players that you're the boss every time. You don't have to do that. They know you're in charge.

Red Auerbach

Look after your people.

Red Auerbach

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Red Auerbach

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Red Auerbach

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches

Red Auerbach

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Red Auerbach

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

Tucker Max

A lot of people think that since I'm drunk in my stories, I must be drunk 24 hours a day. What kind of stupid logic is that? It'd be like if you saw Michael Jordan at a restaurant and were like, "Why aren't you in your basketball uniform?" I leave out way more than I put in.