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Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals — Jack Ramsay

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

There is no such thing as life in-between. — Pat Riley

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports. — Dominique Wilkins

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up. — Michael B. Jordan

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven. — Gabrielle Union

If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success. — Nastia Liukin

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

My swag was phenomenal. — Gilbert Arenas

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed. — Jim Valvano

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. — Phil Jackson

I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball. — Lamorne Morris

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things. — Steve Alford

It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts. — Akeem Ayers

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

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. — Stephen Graham Jones

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

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country. — Bill Russell

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner. — Stephan James

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith

Basketball Rule #4

If you miss
enough of life's
free throws
you will pay
in the end. — Kwame Alexander

A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself. — Pete Carril

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. — John Leonard

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport. — Steve Ballmer

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports. — Anthony Liccione

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself. — Jim Valvano

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. — Charles Barkley

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry. — Pat Conroy

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. — Pat Conroy

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. — Andy Roddick

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction. — Tracy McGrady

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball. — Mark Teixeira

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world. — Robert Orben

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. — Michael Mandelbaum

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. — Michael Waltrip

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me. — Cam Gigandet

What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. — Bill Walton

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

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports ... — Michael Wilbon

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball. — St. Vincent

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. — Mike Krzyzewski

The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one. — Phil Jackson

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. — Yani Tseng

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. — Bobby Knight

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind. — Red Auerbach

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball. — Lisa Leslie

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport. — Ryan Lochte

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada. — Steve Nash

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. — Brendan Dooling

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport. — Harrison Ford

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed. — Stephen Curry

One man cannot make a team. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I like playing many other sports, such as basketball. — Guan Tianlang

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach

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

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot. — Calvin Pryor

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team. — Doc Rivers

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing. — Danny Pudi

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down. — Yao Ming

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer. — Scott Caan

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious. — Charles Shackleford

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. — Joel Osteen

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball. — LeBron James

There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. — Pat Riley

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. — Jim Sensenbrenner

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears. — Elvin Hayes

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.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.' — Paul Pierce

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is. — Atsushi

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games. — Jason Dohring

It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller — James S.A. Corey

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries. — Yao Ming

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan. — Abhishek Bachchan