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The single most important aspect of coaching is running effective practices

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

The team is an extension of the coach.

The team with the most talent usually wins.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

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

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

The tough player is the one who is difficult to play against and easy to play with

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

The true athlete should have character, not be a character

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

The University of Houston has made an excellent choice by hiring Ron Hughey as its new women's basketball coach. Coach Hughey will bring an expertise and energy level to the program that will excite fans and put Houston Women's Basketball back on the map. Having watched him coach up close, I know his players will improve immensely and love learning from him. I look forward to following Houston Basketball in the years to come.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

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

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

They say I have no emotions, but I'm excited even if you can't see it.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.

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

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That's solid defense.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

They took one from us last time, so now we took one from them

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

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.

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.