Nba Quotes

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

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.

I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

If you want to have a lot of success, you need to have a lot of failure

Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

I want to say congratulations to Cleveland and Coach Blatt. LeBron is an incredible player.

Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.

We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.

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

Do your best when no one is looking.

Defense is all about helping. No one can guard a good dribbler, You have to walk kids through how to help and then how to help the helper

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Success doesn't stop when you get there

Make friendship a fine art.

I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.

I've always been interested in jobs in the NBA. But I've been in this for 20 years and it might be time to do something else.

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

Live the moment for the moment.

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

Offense is not equal opportunity

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.

I want to be just like Steph when I grow up.

The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.