"A
basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get
them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."
-- Coach K
"Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots
for Goliath." -- Wilt Chamberlain
"One
man can be a
crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"This
is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one
shouldn't have spectators."
-- Dick Vertleib
"Be
strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."
-- James Naismith
"Boards,
Boards, Boards."
-- Knute Rockne
"When
I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things
exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro."
-- Larry Bird
"If you are going
to take it to the bank, then you
better cash it in."
-- Shannon Fish
"My
responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the
front of the jersey, not the one on the back."
-- Source Unknown
"Good,
better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and
your better is best."
-- Tim Duncan
"Basketball
doesn't build character it reveals it."
-- Author Unknown
"Basketball
is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the
negative."
-- Dan Frisby
"A
tough day at the office is even tougher when your OFFICE contains
spectator seating."
-- Nik Posa
"They say that
nobody is perfect. Then they tell you
practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."
-- Wilt Chamberlain
"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."
-- Bobby Knight
"The
invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to
meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
-- James Naismith
"There
are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn
ball in the basket."
-- Abe Lemons
"Any
American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up."
-- Bill Vaughn
"If you meet the
Buddha in the lane, feed him the
ball."
-- Phil Jackson
"We
have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games
are played indoors."
-- Weldon Drew
"I'm
tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just
want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."
-- Shaquille O'Neal
"Left
hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
-- Charles Shackleford
"Sometimes
a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his
role on the team."
-- Scottie Pippen
