Basketball Teams Quotes

#1. 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 or playing one-on-one.

Ted Solotaroff

#2. Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Rita Rudner

#3. In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

Tom Heinsohn

#4. It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Paul D. Boyer

#5. The two top teams with nice weather and nice people were Dallas and Miami. Of course, the Lakers wouldn't want to trade me in the same conference, so Miami was perfect.

Shaquille O'Neal

#6. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Pat Riley

#7. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

Tom Thibodeau

#8. The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

Jack Ramsay

#9. Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable

Jason Kidd

#10. Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.

J.R. Moehringer

#11. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.

Phil Jackson

#12. My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

Jeremy Lin

#13. The best teams are team in any sport that lose themselves in the team. The individuals lose their identity. And their identities come about as a result of being in the team first.

Mike Krzyzewski

#14. Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.

Jack Ramsay

#15. Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.

Jack Ramsay

#16. On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they all seemed keen to win - grunting and snarling at each other, stealing the ball and pushing.
Oh ... and the players were all baboons.

Rick Riordan

#17. Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

Don Meyer

#18. You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.

Virginia Madsen

#19. We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.

Steve Nash

#20. We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

Steve Nash

#21. The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

Pete Carril

#22. You just gotta be who you are, and I think it's time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call 'em gangs.

Rush Limbaugh

#23. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#24. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Thomas Perez

#25. I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

Zendaya

#26. That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

Bill Laimbeer

#27. In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.

George Vecsey

#28. Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.

Blake Griffin

#29. A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

Al McGuire

#30. I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

Steve Nash

#31. A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship.

Trey Burke

#32. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

Hubie Brown

#33. Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

John Wooden

#34. It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Chris Kraus

#35. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

Dave DeBusschere

#36. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.

Megan McCafferty

#37. In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win.

Pat Riley

#38. In developing teams, I don't believe in rules. I believe in standards. Rules don't promote teamwork, standards do

Mike Krzyzewski

#39. The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Jeff Van Gundy

#40. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.

Kwame Alexander