Basketball Quote by Isiah Thomas Download Open image “Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.” — Isiah Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basketball Confidence NBA
Basketball is about relationships. The bond that you create by playing together, going through battles together. The trust that you build goes a long… — Marc Gasol Copy Share Image
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players. — Bill Courtney Copy Share Image
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os. — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
People will trust you a lot more if you show them you care about them besides basketball. It's deeper. — Eric Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Having the trust and respect from your teammate is where it starts and that is getting to know guys off the court, even before… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working. — Michael Redd Copy Share Image
That's the part of basketball that we have to understand. You can never look at it as an individual sport. You rely on so… — Clyde Drexler Copy Share Image
A common mistake among those who work in sport is spending a disproportional amount of time on "x's and o's" as compared to time… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life. — Kyle Korver Copy Share Image
X & O's aren't worth a damn without a team. If your team isn't with you it doesn't matter what you draw up. The… — Hubie Brown Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share