Basketball Games Quotes
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Basketball Games Quotes & Sayings
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I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
— Dean Smith
Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
— John Wooden
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
— Brad Stevens
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
— Vince Lombardi
I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.
— Heidi Klum
Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.
— George Raveling
I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
— Blake Griffin
I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
— Len Elmore
Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
— Dean Smith
A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
— Michael Josephson
I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates
— Jason Kidd
I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
— John Cullum
The game honors toughness
— Brad Stevens
The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games.
— Carmelo Anthony
Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.
— Patrick Ewing
With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
— LeBron James
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
— Zeljko Obradovic
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
— Michael Jordan
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
— Jack Ramsay
The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
— Julius Erving
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
— Red Auerbach
I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
— Penny Marshall
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
— Winfrey Sanderson
I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.
— Rick Majerus
Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that
— John Calipari
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
— Dennis Rodman
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
— Dirk Nowitzki
Play the game with a smile.
— Earl Monroe
You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other
— Mike Krzyzewski
Coaches win practices, players win games
— Pete Carril
I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
— Brendan Dooling
We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2
— Marcus Camby
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
— Adolph Rupp
The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together
— Terry Stotts
If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow
— Mike Krzyzewski
Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,
— Ron Paul
You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.
— Kobe Bryant
I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.
— Oscar Robertson
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
— Bill Russell
To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.
— Rick Majerus
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
— John Havlicek
Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Play against the Game, not your opponent.
— Bud Wilkinson
I want to be one of the best players in the game.
— Kevin Durant
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
— Hubie Brown
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
— Bobby Knight
I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.
— Seimone Augustus
I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.
— Sarah Silverman
I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.
— Chamique Holdsclaw
It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
— Rick Pitino
Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
— Taylor Phinney
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
— Oscar Robertson
You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.
— Gregg Popovich
Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.
— Shaquille O'Neal
