Basketball Quote by Dick Bennett

Teaching players during practices was what coaching was all about to me.

— John Wooden

Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.

— Vlade Divac

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

— Baron Davis

I think I learned basketball. I learned a lot.

— Rudy Gobert

I learned how to play the game without using my athletic abilities while playing overseas. When I got my NBA opportunity, it enhanced my…

— Ben Wallace

I was at a basketball camp when I was a kid and the lecturer used basketball spinning to teach us a lesson on never…

— Frank Vogel

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

— Larry Bird

I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball and life,…

— J. J. Redick

Basketball was just secondary, and I never had the opportunity to really address the issues that I was having physically.

— Jermaine O'Neal

I wasn't the greatest at school, so I studied basketball.

— Stephen Jackson

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more…

— LaVell Edwards

I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do…

— Bobby Knight