Good Basketball Team Quotes

#1. If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Don Meyer

#2. At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

Don Berliner

#3. The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Brad Stevens

#4. We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

Chris Bosh

#5. Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Pasquier Quesnel

#6. I have a nice boat that I got a couple of years ago that's a Skeeter brand that's 20-foot, center-console. I have it set up for saltwater and for fresh water, so it's been a nice boat.

Josh Turner

#7. People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Joe Dumars

#9. 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

#10. I didn't expect this award [the 2008 MVP] would come to me. I'm surprised. I've played pretty well in other seasons. Our team hasn't been as good. Things just fell into place.

Kobe Bryant

#11. I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Terence

#12. Never be real with fake people.

Sanjay Caines

#13. Slower, it turns out, often means better - better health, better work, better business, better family life, better exercise, better cuisine and better sex.

Carl Honore

#14. This is a tournament. The others are all championships.

Jack Nicklaus

#15. It was like watching people eat dog food.

S.C. Stephens

#16. It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller

James S.A. Corey

#17. It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

#18. It was his subconscious which told him this
that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

Douglas Adams

#19. Basketball is a game of sacrificing yourself for the next guy, being a team that takes good shots, and taking the right shots

David Blatt

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

Kwame Alexander

#21. People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

Oscar Robertson

#22. We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.

Bryant McGill

#23. When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside.

Bobby Knight

#24. Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Doug Collins

#25. My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

George Foreman

#26. The final act of an unraveling society isn't immoral behavior; it's canonizing immoral behavior as a 'new normal' and celebrating it as a 'moral victory.'

Jeff Iorg

#27. Peace obtained with conflicts management.

Toba Beta

#28. We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,

A.O. Scott

#29. This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Doc Rivers