Nba Quotes

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It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Our goal is to be the best team in the NBA at the end of the year.

It is as big a mistake to turn down a good shot as it is to take a bad one

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

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

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

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.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

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

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

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.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils and different creams.

'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.

Good basketball always starts with good defense!

I hate casual shooting. Every shot is preceded by working to get open and catch and shoot under game like conditions

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

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

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.

There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.