Quotes About The Basketball Team

#1. 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

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

Gabriel Luna

#3. 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

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

Sarah Shahi

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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.

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

LeBron James

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

John Kundla

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Brad Stevens

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

Dean Smith

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Dean Smith

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

Kelvin Sampson

#22. 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

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

Blake Griffin

#24. 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

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

Bobby Knight

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

Don Meyer

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

LeBron James

#28. 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

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

Jerry Juhl

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Hubie Brown

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Len Elmore

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

John Wooden

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

Dave DeBusschere

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.

Bill Russell

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

Lawrence Frank

#48. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

John Calipari

#49. 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

#50. If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.

Mike Krzyzewski

#51. 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

#52. You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line.

Mike Krzyzewski

#53. I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.

Mike Krzyzewski

#54. That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

Steve Nash

#55. If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

Jason Kidd

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

John Wooden

#59. The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

Alyssa Milano

#60. It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

John Calipari

#61. I'll take the contract. He can have the team.

Herbert Kohl

#62. 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

#63. It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

LeBron James

#64. 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

#65. Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

Mike Krzyzewski

#66. I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. 'You're in theater but you can play football?'

Dennis Haysbert

#67. Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.

Gene Hackman

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

Jeff Van Gundy

#69. We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.

Jim Valvano

#70. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.

Mark Cuban

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. I play because I have fun. The vets of this team, I just wanted to say thanks to them. You guys mean so much to me. I can have a terrible day and walk in the gym and have Hasheem smile at me. That will change my day.

Kevin Durant

#74. You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Bill Parcells

#75. Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

Craig Ferguson

#76. We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

Mark Gottfried

#77. I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Walter Dean Myers

#78. Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

Carmelo Anthony

#79. 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

#80. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Phil Jackson

#81. We have the mentality of the hunter. We want to be the most enthusiastic team in the country. That's what we can control

Shaka Smart

#82. Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

Marcus Camby

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.

Michael Wilbon

#86. When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

Oscar Robertson

#87. The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

Dean Smith

#88. Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.

George Vecsey

#89. 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

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

Steve Nash

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

Steve Nash

#92. No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

Hubie Brown

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

Pete Carril

#94. The most important thing is team morale.

Dean Smith

#95. The team is the star, never an individual player.

John Wooden

#96. Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

John Wooden

#97. I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

Bob Cousy

#98. Play and practice like you are trying to make the team.

Mike Krzyzewski

#99. Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Pat Summitt

#100. In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.

Hakeem Olajuwon