Quotes About Basketball Team

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.

Marla Maples

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98.

Jerry Juhl

#8. 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

#9. '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

#10. I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

Gabriel Luna

#11. 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

#12. I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

Bobby Knight

#13. A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. "Every no gets me closer to a yes," was the saying I used to use.

Mark Cuban

#14. The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

David Maraniss

#15. I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

Tim McGraw

#16. Remember that tomorrow when you are trying to get somebody to do something. If, for example, you don't want your children to smoke, don't preach at them, and don't talk about what you want; but show them that cigarettes may keep them from making the basketball team or winning the hundred-yard dash.

Dale Carnegie

#17. A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

Mike Krzyzewski

#18. I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

Sarah Shahi

#19. For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

Joe B. Hall

#20. 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

#21. Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs and do film edits for the basketball team and stuff like that because I was always just into doing that.

Jesse Lacey

#22. I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

Kanye West

#23. The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.

Red Auerbach

#24. The basketball team was trailing by three points. I trail by four points - north, south, east, and west. I also trail by covered wagon.

Jarod Kintz

#25. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

Jonathan Groff

#26. Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#27. In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

Charles Mingus

#28. In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

Zac Efron

#29. Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men's Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.

Kenny Smith

#30. I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#31. A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.

Ross Perot Jr.

#32. I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Elinor Lipman

#33. When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.

Jason Chaffetz

#34. I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

Geena Davis

#35. Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?

JohnA Passaro

#36. After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

Jimmy Fallon

#37. Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

Chris Jericho

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

Doc Rivers

#39. When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

Adam Carolla

#40. I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

Adam DeVine

#41. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

#42. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#43. 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

#44. D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

LeBron James

#45. A team is a fist-not five fingers.

Mike Krzyzewski

#46. Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.

John Kundla

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

Oscar Robertson

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Don Meyer

#53. 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

#54. Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.

Mark Gottfried

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

Bill Laimbeer

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

Brad Stevens

#57. Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

Dean Smith

#58. 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

#59. What does this program/team need this week?

Dick Bennett

#60. Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

Kevin Durant

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you

Bill Belichick

#65. The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

Dean Smith

#66. 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

#67. The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Novak Djokovic

#68. 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

#69. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Kelvin Sampson

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

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

Blake Griffin

#74. 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

#75. A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run.

Bobby Knight

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

Al McGuire

#77. The team is an extension of the coach.

Don Meyer

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

Jack Ramsay

#82. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

LeBron James

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Don Meyer

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

Hubie Brown

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

Len Elmore

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

John Brady

#98. Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

Don Meyer

#99. I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.

Shaquille O'Neal

#100. 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