“I'm not really worried about my numbers now as a 36-year-old. I'm not trying to be the first, experimental case of a 36-year-older trying to maintain his numbers, especially when I'm on a team like this. Can I do the same stuff I could do when I was Amare's age? Of course not. I'm not going to even try. However, I feel that I'm the baddest 36-year-old out there.” FeelsTryingYearsFirstsAgeCoursesStuffNumbersCasesTeamBasketballWorried Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“[When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people want to talk badly about you when you're down, or kick you when you're down. As basketball players, people think everybody's ultra-confident. But that's not the case.” PeopleThinkingWantHeartYoungRealizingCasesPlayerBasketballKicksBasketball PlayerUltras Author:Blake Griffin
“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsProblemHappensGamesSportsPresidentSimpleCasesTeamStudentsFootballCollegeBasketballUniversityAthleteOpponentsRevenueCrushedSimple ThingsBasketball TeamDisarmingStudent Athlete Author:Bob Costas
“Once people couldn't trust the college game, some checked out the pro game, but that was in big trouble, too. We had no clock and a lot of faults. People looked at the slow pace and at big guys like George Mikan and said pro basketball was just for overgrown pituitary cases. Baseball and football were numbers one and two and pro basketball wasn't even in the same universe.” PeopleSaidTwoBigsGuyUniverseGamesNumbersCasesTroubleFootballCollegeBasketballBaseballFaultsClockPaceBig Guys Author:Dolph Schayes
“There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.” MenInspirationalShowsGamesWinningCasesBasketballScoreOne Man Author:Kobe Bryant
“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.” MindSuccessReligionDifficultCasesBasketballProfession Book:They Call Me Coach Source: They Call Me Coach
“The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.” KnowsWantTryingBelieveCharacterHomeParentLeadershipMistakeTalkingBoysCasesBasketballCoachesCoachingGradesNbaNot TalkingWant HimBiggest MistakeBorderlineHome Life Book:Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant
“What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?” FunnyStuffCasesBasketballSittingBallsBunchFascinatingSitting AroundFunny Basketball Author:Woody Allen