Best Basketball Team Quotes

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

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

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players — Jack Ramsay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best teams play for each other, not with each other — Jeff Van Gundy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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