Best 2712 quotes in «basketball quotes» category

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

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.

If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont recruit them

If it's sports and women's golf, men's golf, and it's on TV, I'm watching it. I watched those ladies do what they do at such a high level, and she's obviously a big basketball fan and a fan of ours, too. So it was cool to have that interaction.

If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

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.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from a lot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

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.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from achieving true greatness.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff.