Popovich Quotes

#1. I've never seen a better coach than Gregg Popovich

Jerry West

#2. A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway." Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down." Popovich replied: "Next question."

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#3. I'm not one to blow smoke at my players. They kicked our butts on the offensive boards. And it's not just because the ball came their way.

Gregg Popovich

#4. We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually

Gregg Popovich

#5. I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.

Gregg Popovich

#6. If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

Arthur Golden

#7. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

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#8. You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.

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#9. I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.

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#10. No doubt, God took a risk with creation by granting it consciousness and free decision.

Eliezer Berkovits

#11. When a just cause reaches its flood-tide ... whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Carrie Chapman Catt

#12. Stop by stop by stop. Play aggressively. Sprint back on 'D' and pay attention to how we're supposed to guard as a team

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#13. It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

Gregg Popovich

#14. Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

Gregg Popovich

#15. They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.

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#16. Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

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#17. We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the world.

Gregg Popovich

#18. So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

Nathan Sawaya

#19. What's important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty - a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn't look exactly like a model.

Christophe Lemaitre

#20. Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. - Bill Crosby

Aleatha Romig

#21. I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk

Gregg Popovich

#22. 'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role

Gregg Popovich

#23. She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of worth, honor, and repute, and she does not lend herself with facility to an invidious comparison between her owner and his neighbors.

Thorstein Veblen

#24. I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

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#25. Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

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#26. When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves.

Aletheia Luna

#27. IF you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that "the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord;" if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and see His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#28. Probably the people around me and the people I care about. They are my motivation. That's probably what drives me to succeed. Family and friends.

Taylor Lautner

#29. In Phil's case, I was personally thrilled he came back, because I think it's huge for the league. When you think about what he's done and how many championships he's won, there's always drama when he comes back in.

Gregg Popovich

#30. It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

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#31. I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.

Ali MacGraw

#32. The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

William Faulkner