Quotes on Nba

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

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.

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills