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I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.
— Jerry West
You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning
— Bill Parcells
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
I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
— Moses Malone
I'll just have to get it against my favorite team.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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
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
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
A team is a fist-not five fingers.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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'll play all five positions if my team needs me to.
— Kevin Durant
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
Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win
— Doug Collins
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
— Bob Cousy
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
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
My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.
— David Sanborn
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.
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
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
— Al McGuire
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
I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
— Marla Maples
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
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
The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.
— Pete Carril
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
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
In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.
— Pete Carril
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
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
— Kelvin Sampson
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Have a vision. Sell your program. Your team is going to reflect you.
— Mark Gottfried
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
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
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
Nobody's more important than the team.
— Rejean Houle
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
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
The team is the star, never an individual player.
— John Wooden