Top 100 Quotes About Basketball Team
#1. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen
#2. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#3. The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
Dennis Rodman
#4. D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.
LeBron James
#6. Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.
John Kundla
#7. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#8. I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships ... We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
Lauren Jackson
#9. She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.
Susan Cooper
#10. I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
Oscar Robertson
#11. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#12. We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.
Shaquille O'Neal
#13. If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
Don Meyer
#14. A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
Prince Charles
#15. Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
Pat Riley
#16. Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.
Mark Gottfried
#17. That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.
Bill Laimbeer
#18. The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions
Brad Stevens
#19. Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
Dean Smith
#20. We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again ... I want the Sixers to be the basketball team that people want to see.
Doug Collins
#21. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#22. What does this program/team need this week?
Dick Bennett
#23. Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.
Kevin Durant
#24. 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
#25. The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
Darby Stanchfield
#26. I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the intramurals and I loved it. There was nothing like a team.
Tom Watson
#27. Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you
Bill Belichick
#28. The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.
Dean Smith
#29. My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.
Larry Bird
#30. The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
Novak Djokovic
#31. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out
Jerry West
#32. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
Kelvin Sampson
#33. You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play
John Calipari
#34. I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
Marla Maples
#35. I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.
LeBron James
#36. Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.
Pete Newell
#37. Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.
Blake Griffin
#38. If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.
Mark Jackson
#39. A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.
Bobby Knight
#40. A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
Al McGuire
#41. The team is an extension of the coach.
Don Meyer
#42. 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
#43. If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
Michael Mandelbaum
#44. As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Don Meyer
#45. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team
Jack Ramsay
#46. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
LeBron James
#47. The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.
George Karl
#48. I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.
Erin Wasson
#49. My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.
David Sanborn
#50. If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
J. B. Smoove
#51. If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.
Jerry Juhl
#52. I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper.
Bill Russell
#53. Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
Don Meyer
#54. 'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
Gary David Goldberg
#55. To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.
Vince Lombardi
#56. I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna
#57. One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.
Len Elmore
#58. President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.
Conan O'Brien
#59. A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves
K. C. Jones
#60. Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.
Hubie Brown
#61. There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.
Tom Landry
#62. They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.
Erik Spoelstra
#63. This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
Wilt Chamberlain
#64. 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
#65. I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
Len Elmore
#66. Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do whatever it takes. Kids that are more into themselves will not do that. They will take care of themselves and get more individual when things are tough.
Dick Bennett
#67. I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team
John Wooden
#68. If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.
John Brady
#69. Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
Don Meyer
#71. 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
#72. I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.
Julius Erving
#73. 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
#74. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable
Joe Dumars
#75. How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento ... he's on the team. I ain't going.
Shaquille O'Neal
#76. One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#77. Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals
John Wooden
#78. 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
#79. I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
George Vecsey
#80. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
Dave DeBusschere
#81. 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
#82. I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team..
Wes Unseld
#83. Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.
Daryl Morey
#84. Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Bill Russell
#85. It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#86. The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.
John Wooden
#87. Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better
Lawrence Frank
#88. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
John Calipari
#89. I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
Bill Walton
#90. I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.
Bobby Knight
#91. Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.
James Harden
#92. One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
Dean Smith
#95. If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
Mike Krzyzewski
#96. He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball ... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.
Shaquille O'Neal
#97. I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.
LeBron James
#98. The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.
Gene Shue
#99. I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
Moses Malone
#100. You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.
Mike Krzyzewski
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