Amount Quote by Dean Smith

Basketball is a five-player game, only five people can play, but when you're growing up there's 10 players on a team usually and some…

— Tyrese Haliburton

Basketball isn't one-on-one. It's five-on-five, plus the bench.

— Ricky Rubio

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

— Dean Smith

I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

— Len Elmore

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

— Ted Solotaroff

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on…

— Hubie Brown

Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

— David Blatt

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players…

— Dean Smith

Some games you're gonna have seven shots, some games you're gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.

— Joe Harris

Basketball players, the good ones, are no one-shot specialisls. This is a game which puts a premium on your ability to hit that hoop…

— George Mikan

There's not too many 5-10 basketball players that make it, let alone play college and make it to the NBA.

— Gordon Hayward

When you first come to a team, no one wants to come down and take three or four shots in a row. You want…

— Larry Johnson