Quotes on Nba

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

Heart is what separates the good from the great.