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My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best. — John Wooden

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

I hate to lose more than I like to win. — Larry Bird

My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship. — Kobe Bryant

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win — John Beilein

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness. — Gregg Popovich

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game — Jack Ramsay

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning — Shaquille O'Neal

There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily. — Pat Summitt

To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal. — Carmelo Anthony

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness — Brad Stevens

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

You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win. — Larry Bird

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment. — Mike Krzyzewski

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. — Bobby Knight

In all my years one thing has never changed; You win with serious, tough-minded players. That never changes — Tom Thibodeau

You can't win without the ball. — Red Auerbach

Winning is the best deodorant. — Jason Kidd

Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell? — Red Auerbach

The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. — Woody Hayes

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing. — LeBron James

Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman. — Shaquille O'Neal

Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big. — Geno Auriemma

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

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

I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win. — Sherman Douglas

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling. — Blake Griffin

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships — Zeljko Obradovic

It's always nice to start the season with a win. — Yao Ming

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships. — LeBron James

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

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy. — Gregg Popovich

Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself. — Mike Krzyzewski

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

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine. — Pat Summitt

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink. — Doc Rivers

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets? — John Calipari

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

Winning is only important in war and surgery. — Al McGuire

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning. — Don Meyer

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players. — Billy Donovan

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score. — Al McGuire

Know how to win and how to lose and be able to handle adversity. — Tom Osborne

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

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious. — Shaquille O'Neal

It feels good to come here and be a winning program. — Kevin Durant

Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games — 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

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready. — LeBron James

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

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us — Kenyon Martin

I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication. — Scottie Pippen

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it. — Pat Summitt

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric. — Al McGuire

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game — Morgan Wootten

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

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws. — Don Meyer

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better. — Kevin Durant

If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff. — Tim Duncan

Can't win without talent, you know. — Al McGuire

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them. — Rick Majerus

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all. — LeBron James

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

You gotta win. That's all it takes. — Kevin Durant

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting. — Magic Johnson

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me. — Chamique Holdsclaw

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

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day. — LeBron James

Winning is more related to good defense than good offense — Jack Ramsay

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

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches. — Chuck Daly

Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again. — Shaquille O'Neal

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing. — Paul Collier

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step. — Phil Jackson

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State) — Jim Valvano

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective. — John Wooden

My opinion about basketball, the way I was taught, was when you step on the court, you play to win. — Larry Bird

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow — Mike Krzyzewski

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. — Pat Summitt

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship — Aselin Debison