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Scott Brooks

(1965) Basketball Player

24 quotes in 170 categories

Scott Brooks is a basketball player, best known for Rights and Lives.

Quick Facts About Scott Brooks

Born: July 31, 1965
Profession: Basketball Player
Notable works: Rights and Lives

About Scott Brooks

Scott William Brooks is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a player, he won an NBA championship with the Houston Rockets in 1994.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Scott Brooks

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

Mentality

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When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

Being sick

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When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

Argument

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The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

Coaches

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You learn from playing against the best players and the best teams, and we're going to keep fighting and figuring out ways…

Against

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You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Coached

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There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Paper

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I've never talked to our guys about being young. That's an easy crutch to fall on. You really just have to come…

Crutches

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I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in…

All time

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Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind…

Believe

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When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're…

Choices

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I love being in the gym.

Being

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To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we…

Firsts

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You worked every day to earn what's on the table, literally. It was a week-to-week thing. And I wouldn't change it. I…

Anything

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I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later…

Able

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We had a great preseason. The guys responded with what coach (George Karl) wanted early on in pace of the game, togetherness…

Areas

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I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

Able

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You don't think the losing is ever going to end, but when it does end, you get to enjoy it and keep…

Doe

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I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it.…

Actually

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You can have great players, but if they dont want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Ifs

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Mind games to me are overrated.

Games

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There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.

Great job

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You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples…

Build

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You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.

Any

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