This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. — Oscar Robertson
The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night. — Steve Nash
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri
Tim Duncan did it. Dirk Nowitzki did it. I just want to be one of those guys… that stays for the city, play for the city for 20 years. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college – and now. — Kawhi Leonard
You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA. — John Wall
He could be dominant - if he played in the WNBA. — Shaquille O'Neal
Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player. — Larry Bird
This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. — Kevin Garnett
I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. — Jeremy Lin
What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere. — Bill Russell
People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That’s the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people. — Kawhi Leonard
NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time. — Xi Jinping
The Big Valbowski is a lot like a Hakeem Olajuwan, either he's taking the hook shot from the outside or driving down the lane on the inside, he always scores! — Val Venis
Short Nba Player Quotes
I will never play for the Miami Heat. — Rajon Rondo
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen. — Wilt Chamberlain
One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role — Scottie Pippen
It’s how I’ve been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team. — Kawhi Leonard
Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league? — Derrick Rose
Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then I was young, eight or nine years, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.
There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route. — Sonny Vaccaro
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game. — Bobby Knight
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. — Goran Ivanisevic
Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win — Doug Collins
Basketball Player Quotes
I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook
I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk — Gregg Popovich
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. — Bo Schembechler
Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. — Dean Smith
So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games — Geno Auriemma
You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed. — David Robinson
I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got guys like this – like these guys every single day that push me to be the best that I can be. — Kevin Durant
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach
Nfl Players Quotes
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. — Jack Lambert
If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job. — Bill Walsh
We want to win. The Raider fans deserve it. The Raider players deserve it, even my organization deserves it. You have to win and you have to win with a vision for the Super Bowl. That's our passion here. — Al Davis
I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player. — Robert Griffin III
A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is. — Tom Brady
Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts. — Jim Brown
Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much. — Adrian Peterson
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl. — Bill Peterson
Nba Finals Quotes
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA. — James Harden
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. — Gregg Popovich
I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy. — Gregg Popovich
I think LeBron asked out of the game once or twice before that, so we knew he was getting tired but we were all getting tired out there. ... I don't think I've played in anything like this since I left the islands. — Tim Duncan
I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals. — Ray Allen
There are moments where we forgot what got us to where we are now. ... We stopped moving the ball. We know how it works. We are playing a great team with great players, and we've got to be close to perfect to win. — Manu Ginobili
Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating. — Stephen Curry
My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals. — John Starks
The same way you slow me down: … You can’t. — LeBron James
They played great and I can honestly say I don't think any of us were expecting this type of performance. They were great. You have to give them credit for that. — Erik Spoelstra
Soccer Player Quotes
It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain. — Ian Rush
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something. — Cristiano Ronaldo
If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. — Bo Jackson
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. — Bobby Charlton
When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one." — Carli Lloyd
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet. — Ronaldo
It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners. — Roberto Baggio
Basketball Team Quotes
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you. — Bill Belichick
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
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
We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually — Gregg Popovich
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
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
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win. — Allen Iverson
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart — Bill Parcells
I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too. — Dana White
You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. — Junior Seau
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. — Jim Sensenbrenner
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. — Major Taylor
I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club. — Alison Sweeney
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. — Robert A. Heinlein
If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing. — Dominick Cruz
I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete. — Wayne Gretzky
No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader. — Jim Trelease
Nick, You know, The first guy I met when I first got to Seattle, As an eighteen year old, You took me in. You believed in me from the beginning. You knew that I had potential. And every single day I know I could look at you And know that you respect me As a man, As a player, And you gonna ride with me to the end. I thank you. — Kevin Durant
I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents. — Steve Nash
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. — Bill Walton
Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group — Jeff Van Gundy
Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo
A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player. — Jason Kidd
You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach
You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you — Lawrence Frank
Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor
Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team. — Mark E. Hyman
The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates — Jay Bilas
Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril
Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player — Mike Krzyzewski
Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work — Dean Smith
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. — Michael Jordan
In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes — Tom Thibodeau
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. — Michael Jordan
Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers
As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be. — Kobe Bryant
(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players. — Doc Rivers
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
When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honour. I didn't really realise how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony. — Dirk Nowitzki
I'm just thrilled for so many people. Our players, mostly, but the people in our organization - Rick Welts, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber and the whole group. It's just a phenomenal group of people. I think as a coach you just appreciate kind of the big picture a little bit more. — Steve Kerr
So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft. — Andre Iguodala
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them — Michael Jordan
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared — Jack Ramsay
In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player. — Tony Parker
I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal. — Nate Robinson
I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me — Jerry Sloan
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