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Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.
— Harvey MacKay
Practice to beat the best.
— Dick Bennett
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
— Vince Lombardi
On paper, I think this is the best team I've been on.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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
Do your best when no one is looking.
— Bob Cousy
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
— Jack Ramsay
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
— Jack Ramsay
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
The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.
— Oscar Robertson
I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
— Shaquille O'Neal
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
— George Lucas
Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat.
— John Wooden
The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing
— John Wooden
For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
— Dennis Rodman
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
Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
— Wilt Chamberlain
I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
— Kobe Bryant
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
Don't worry about being cool. Worry about being the best
— Jeff Van Gundy
I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.
— Metta World Peace
Winning is the best deodorant.
— Jason Kidd
Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?
— Michael Jordan
Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.
— Vince Lombardi
Play hard, learn as much as I can and do what I do best. The rest will take care of itself I think.
— Carmelo Anthony
Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
— Derek Fisher
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.
— Steve Nash
If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.
— Derrick Rose
Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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
The best teams play for each other, not with each other
— Jeff Van Gundy
In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.
— Julius Erving
The Miami Heat has the best fans.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.
— Michael Jordan
I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.
— Jack Nicholson
Your best players have to unite and inspire the group ... otherwise, they'll divide the group
— Jeff Van Gundy
I want to be one of the best players in the game.
— Kevin Durant
On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.
— Magic Johnson
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
— Kelvin Sampson
The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.
— Blake Griffin
I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness
— Tom Izzo
Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.
— Bobby Knight
We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.
— John Wooden
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you
— Bill Belichick
The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.
— Dean Smith
Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning
— Jeff Van Gundy
Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!
— Steve Nash
I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.
— Serena Williams
Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
— Yao Ming
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Georgetown. Alonzo was the guy I always heard about. I've always wanted to measure myself against the best.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
— Kevin Durant
I'm always hungry. I want to be the best.
— Kevin Durant
Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.
— John Paxson