Top 1200 Winning Basketball Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted to do something more.

I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

I'm a basketball junkie. I watch basketball all the time.

I felt that N.Y. is the mecca of basketball. The love that I have for basketball, I feel it here.

All I have to do is keeping on focusing on what Max Holloway does, and that's winning - and winning fashionably.

When you have a run of games where you keep winning and winning, you know it must end.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

I just play basketball. That's me: all I know is basketball.

I began sports as a Basketball player but got into lifting weights after a recurring ankle problem that stopped me from competing in basketball despite having surgeries.

It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.

Winning breeds more winning, that's what I've learnt. Getting on a roll is important.

Going to Kentucky... it's not really a college experience. You go there for basketball. You get your studies together, but then after that, it's all about basketball.

Basketball has given me everything, but it has to be bigger than basketball. That was the first thing that I said to Under Armour, and they were behind it 100 percent. This isn't about a shoe deal.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

Basketball is basketball. You have to pass the ball, you have to score.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

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

Basketball is my main sport, which I got a lot of scholarships through, but I chose modeling over basketball, though.

I know I used to play basketball every day, whether it was for fun with my older brother or if it was organized basketball on teams.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

Faulty execution of a winning combination has lost many a game on the very brink of victory. In such cases a player sees the winning idea, plays the winning sacrifice and then inverts the order of his fellow-up moves or misses the really clinching point of his combination.

I'd take winning the championship over winning a Chase race any day of the week.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

I picture success and winning. The body has a physical response to mental images of winning.

I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

People talk about the Spurs and how we do a decent job at playing basketball. But there is a deeper meaning to who we are, where we come from, and at the same time, why we play basketball.

Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.

There's only one thing better than winning 14 world titles - and that's winning 15.

My job is to just make winning plays when I'm out on the court, and hopefully we're winning. That's all I want.

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.

I've always loved basketball. When you're playing pick-up basketball, you just kind of get used to being one of the guys.

I went to school to Washburn to play basketball, and I always believed if basketball didn't work out I could fall back on golf.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.

The love of basketball, the time and effort I've put into it - I'd be doing a disservice to myself if I didn't see how far I could go in basketball before I tried to do anything in baseball.

Prince never, ever mentioned it except to say he wished he was taller so he could play basketball. He was actually a really great basketball player.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

It's not just the winning I like, it's the affection you get for winning. It's a lovely feeling, that.

Sure, there's a lot of negativity, but basketball is such a huge thing in my community. Flint has a very rich tradition in basketball.

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

When you get older, you realise it's all about winning games and winning trophies.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

Winning influences, it helps, it gets the kids. Winning makes an impact.