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I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball. — Michael Eisner

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

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

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions — Brad Stevens

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work — Dean Smith

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

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

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline. — Joe B. Hall

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

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

We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it. — P. J. Carlesimo

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

Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist. — Kwame Alexander

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

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski

To be a team, you must be a family. — Don Meyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. — Bob Cousy

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport. — Steve Ballmer

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other — Mike Krzyzewski

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart — Bill Parcells

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that. — LeBron James

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

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end. — Don Meyer

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial. — Rick Pitino

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

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

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

If The Muppet Show had a basketball team, the score would always be Frog 99, Chaos 98. — Jerry Juhl

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

I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10. — Dean Smith

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

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

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

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

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

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games. — Carmelo Anthony

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. — Scottie Pippen

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game. — LeBron James

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

The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life. — Red Auerbach

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you. — Mark Gottfried

A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time. — Mike Krzyzewski

Play off your great player ... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him. — Don Meyer

One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win. — Carmelo Anthony

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

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one. — Mike Krzyzewski

Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team. — John Wooden

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals. — Knute Rockne

A team is a fist-not five fingers. — Mike Krzyzewski

It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller — James S.A. Corey

A great way to test the conditioning of your team is the two-mile run. — Bobby Knight

We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game? — Bobby Knight

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.

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.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy — Bill Parcells

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. — Doc Rivers

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious. — Al McGuire

We win because we play together as a team. — John Havlicek

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

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

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

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

The Spurs are a great WNBA team. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself. — Pete Carril

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament. — Vic Ziegel