Occupation: Basketball Player Birth: February 12, 1934 Death: August 9, 1992
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper..
I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instea….
Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!.
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him.
We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world..
To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything..
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at ….
To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when y….
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute..
If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work..
If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you..
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved..
You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory..
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play..
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered..
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot..
A rebounder, or a shot-blocker for that matter, is always at a disadvantage if he tells himself the only way he can succeed is by out jumping the guy….
I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them is how they continue to explore and….
You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wond….
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete..