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Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them. — Blake Griffin

Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. — Bill Russell

On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us. — Kobe Bryant

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

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension. — LeBron James

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

I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad. — Carmelo Anthony

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

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

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

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

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

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams — Tom Thibodeau

You can't play any defense if the other team is on the foul line. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

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 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

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team — Mike Krzyzewski

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

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team — Don Meyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled. — John Brady

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

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 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

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

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

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better — Lawrence Frank

We believe in people executing their role and caring about the team more than anything individually — Gregg Popovich

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

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

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

I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. — Marla Maples

Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals — John Wooden

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

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

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

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team — Jack Ramsay

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets. — LeBron James

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

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are. — John Wooden

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win — Doug Collins

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

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

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

The team is the star, never an individual player. — John Wooden

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game — John Calipari

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out. — Dean Smith

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you — Bill Belichick

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for. — Julius Erving

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

Play and practice like you are trying to make the team. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

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

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team. — Kevin Durant

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer. — Rita Rudner

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid. — Phil Jackson

Nobody's more important than the team. — Rejean Houle

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

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

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

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

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

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track. — Sarah Shahi

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

The most important thing is team morale. — Dean Smith

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

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.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles — John Wooden

The team is an extension of the coach. — Don Meyer

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable — Joe Dumars

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2. — Yao Ming

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles. — Gabriel Luna

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

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

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team. — Carmelo Anthony