Center Quote by Jim Boeheim Download Open image “The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.” — Jim Boeheim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Center Even NBA Never Position
It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position. — Kyle Korver Copy Share Image
Look at everybody in the league. They don't pay players to play defense. — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
Not all players want to play defense. You get in foul trouble, you're going to be on the bench. — Serge Ibaka Copy Share Image
Pick-and-roll in the NBA is extremely difficult to guard if you have the right personnel. — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball. — D'Angelo Russell Copy Share Image
Basketball has turned into an offensive-minded situation. They don't play on both ends. They don't play defense. — Gary Payton Copy Share Image
I tell young players that come to the NBA time, especially rookies: 'Look at your position and study every guy that you could potentially… — Billy Donovan Copy Share Image
In the NBA, if you can't defend your position, they're going to go at you over and over again. — Andrew Wiggins Copy Share Image
Defense has changed because you can't hand-check guys anymore. Back in the day, if you drove to the hoop against the Bad Boy Pistons,… — Ahmad Rashad Copy Share Image
In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him. — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that's good… — Patrick Beverley Copy Share Image
The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
Greensboro's mad at me because I said I'd rather go to New York City for a week. Why would they be mad at me?… — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
Against our zone, even really good offensive teams take longer than usual to get into their patterns, maybe 30 seconds. So we're locked into… — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
I'm happy that we've won a lot of games. I don't think about it. I don't. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
When you take over at Kansas, they've always won, so you're expected to win. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or… — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is… — Warren Stephens Copy Share Image
Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your center. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line. — Jarome Iginla Copy Share Image
The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
I went to a Bulls game when it was still in Chicago Stadium before they built the United Center. — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
You just don't want to get pigeon-holed into one position. That's why even though I start out at center, I may play small forward,… — Lisa Leslie Copy Share Image
I'm going to tap until I can't: I'll be so old, all I can do is walk out from the wings to stage center.… — Gregory Hines Copy Share Image
'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
