Nba Quotes

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Success is determined by your daily choices and habits

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

Your decisions reveal your priorities

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Build shelter against a rainy day.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

The key to success is failure

Failure makes me work even harder.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Not a game, not a game... practice.

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

I know the strengths and weaknesses of my teammates. I make my passing decisions accordingly

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.