Basketball team Quotes · Page 2

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

— John Brady

I was in the right place at the right time.

— Mel Allen

One man cannot make a team.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All really successful coaches have a system.

— Jim Valvano

I know LeBron will be owning a basketball team or maybe even a football team.

— Maverick Carter

Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.

— Lon Kruger

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

— Jose Calderon

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

— Sarah Shahi

Let me tell you about 'Mad Dog' Madsen. He was like the Soccer Dad of the Stanford Men's Basketball Team.

— Jason Collins

Made the basketball team haha (; Starting point guard (:

— Jared

Any time you make a basketball team you have the opportunity to be successful.

— Lou Williams

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind.

— Red Auerbach

So, my role on an NBA basketball team was the defensive stopper, was to be the most physical player on the team.…

— Jason Collins

The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors…

— Frank Deford

Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the…

— Ted Solotaroff

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

— Adam Carolla

I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it's like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men’s…

— Kenny Smith

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of…

— David Sanborn

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing…

— Elinor Lipman

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you…

— Adam DeVine

After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his…

— Jimmy Fallon

I would like her to do sports. That's something I really enjoyed when I was younger. I want her to be able…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I was in the chorus in high school, not a soloist. I was on the basketball team. I was in modern dance,…

— Eva Marie Saint

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically…

— Dick Gephardt

I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on.…

— Steve Ballmer

In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams…

— Tom Heinsohn

“I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“You must be a rich man," she said. "Not much of a warrior, though. You keep letting me sneak up on you."…

— Sherman Alexie

“-Write out a conversation with your inner voice. Begin the entry with a question directed to yourself, then write your mental response.…

— Heather Moehn

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of…

— Anna Quindlen

“At the time I was, and would continue to be for many years, obsessed with the Sweet Valley High books. I read…

— Roxane Gay

“Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy…

— J.D. Salinger

Girls: Dear Diary, I saw him passing by my way. I didn't know what to do. I used to smile and greet…

— Anonymous

“Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé “IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE.” 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Sitting with some of the other members of the Scholastic Decathlon team, quiet, studious Martha Cox heard snatches of the lunchtime poetry.…

— Alice Alfonsi

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

— Norm Stewart

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

— Bill Walton

I was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

— Ser'Darius Blain

“there with her boyfriend and his friends from the basketball team, including Paul Turner.”

— T.L. Haddix