If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish. — John Brady Copy Share Image
Basketball is a team game. When you play 100 games in a season, you definitely need everyone to help out. — Zaza Pachulia Copy Share Image
Your ability to communicate to your young people will determine your success. — Jim Harrick Copy Share Image
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed. — Jim Valvano Copy Share Image
When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
That's really the only thing that matters to me - what you've done as a team because basketball is a team sport. — Nikola Vucevic Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you… — Bob Sundvold Copy Share Image
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions… — Taylor Louderman Copy Share Image
I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
I played baseball, was on the basketball team in high school, did crew at Hofstra, and randomly played ultimate frisbee, too. But… — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
I had been cut from the basketball team every year. But I was like, 'I can turn it around! Michael Jordan made… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the… — Zac Efron Copy Share Image
Since I was part of the St. Francis College basketball team, I used to get the opportunity to go to various parts… — Tejaswi Madivada Copy Share Image
“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian Copy Share Image
I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts. — Len Elmore Copy Share Image
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith Copy Share Image
One part of being a leader on a basketball team is you have to be there for yourself and others. — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. — Don Meyer Copy Share Image
Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will… — Jim Harrick Copy Share Image
I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports.… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?” — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image
Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five… — Hubie Brown Copy Share Image
Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs… — Jesse Lacey Copy Share Image
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Everybody plays basketball in D.C. Not on a team. Just around the way. Anywhere. I actually loved basketball. — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
“The basketball team was trailing by three points. I trail by four points—north, south, east, and west. I also trail by covered… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal. — Dave DeBusschere Copy Share Image
Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were… — Frank Vogel Copy Share Image
