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Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. — Tony Romo

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration. — Dick Bennett

Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth — Doc Rivers

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball. — Les Claypool

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted. — Kobe Bryant

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player — Mike Krzyzewski

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life. — Michael Josephson

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

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

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that. — Don Meyer

Great shooters are one dribble guys. — Rick Majerus

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not — Brad Stevens

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

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride. — Allen Iverson

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else — Don Meyer

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

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection. — Hakeem Olajuwon

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup. — John Wooden

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now. — Holly Johnson

In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown. — Allen Iverson

Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great — Thad Matta

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions. — Bill Laimbeer

Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate. — Peter P. Carr

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball. — Harvey Mason Jr.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic ... all those 'iches. — Shaquille O'Neal

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court. — LeBron James

Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline — Tom Izzo

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in. — Julius Erving

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great — Jon Gordon

There has never been a great 'silent' defense — Del Harris

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball. — Holly Johnson

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great. — Julius Erving

You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality — Michael Malone

The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates — Jay Bilas

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals. — Oscar Robertson

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself. — Mike Krzyzewski

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy. — Jerry Tarkanian

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great. — Don Meyer

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee. — Shaquille O'Neal

It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade. — Shaquille O'Neal

Before I became the 'Great Test of the West, I was the 'Beast of the East.' — Shaquille O'Neal

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.' — Shaquille O'Neal

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet. — Stephen Curry

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem — Brett Brown

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

Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again. — Tim Duncan

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player — Jon Gordon

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. — T. S. Eliot

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches. — Don Meyer

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere. — Bill Russell

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing. — Charles Barkley

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

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

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back! — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You better have great practices. — Al McGuire

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

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

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art. — Helio Gracie

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

My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score. — Burt Reynolds

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball. — Tim Hardaway

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

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness. — Theodore Roosevelt

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players. — Michael Douglas

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

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn. — John Wooden

The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East. — Shaquille O'Neal

I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night. — Kobe Bryant

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side. — Dennis Rodman

Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle — Rick Pitino