Help Quote by Jahlil Okafor

I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are…

— John Wooden

You're all over the place usually with young players. You're trying to manage their emotions and teach them NBA situations. It usually takes months,…

— Erik Spoelstra

It's a huge, huge pressure that so many people depend on you. The type of player I am and people look at me to…

— Jermaine O'Neal

When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

— Lonzo Ball

It's easy for especially NBA players to get caught up in the stress of the job, to get caught up in negativity and in…

— Malcolm Brogdon

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

— O. J. Mayo

Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick…

— Phil Jackson

Everyone playing in the NBA likes to have pressure. If you didn't like pressure, you wouldn't be playing.

— Monty Williams

Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute,…

— Tim Duncan

It's kind of surreal to play in the NBA, and to have some success, but I've never had an experience like this playing the…

— Tyrese Haliburton

I feel like every NBA player puts their life into this game, and for it to be cut short - it hurts, especially when…

— John Collins