“In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.” YearsHardWinningHoursPracticeFourWeekTenBasketballSeasonsFollowingEightCoachingEach DayNbaChampionshipFourteenUclaNational Championships Author:John Wooden
“The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the guys won it for me. They won it for the big guy. Numbers are overrated. There's a lot of guys in this league who can say they've got great numbers. But they can't say they've got four rings in the last six years.” YearsFirstsBigsLastsGuyThreeWinningNumbersFourBasketballSixRingsLeagueLast YearChampionshipOverratedBig Guys Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I'm sort of like a specialist. I go in, do what I do and every four years, they get tired of me and I have to relocate myself.” YearsFourBasketballTiredFour YearsSpecialists Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“There is nothing for me to be sour about. What you got to understand is that I'm a military man. We usually do my shift for four or five years and then you got to move on.” MenYearsMovingFiveFourMilitaryBasketballFive YearsSourLakersMilitary ManGot To Move On Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I have a lot left. There's only four or five good centers in the league and I'm in that number. ... I've been in it for 17 years but I've missed three years because of injury. If you do the math, I've still got three years left. You got that?” IfsYearsStillsThreeLeftNumbersFiveFourBasketballMathLeagueInjuryThree Years Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.” HandsLastsThreeGamesCareersFourPlayerMinesBattleBasketballReally GreatVeteranThursdayPickupsGreat Battle Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.” WayWantLongWinningFourTeamDependsBasketballApproachLong TimeFortunateNbaTrophiesMvp Author:LeBron James
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.” RunningFacesLibertyFourFeetMissingFootballBasketballCourtFortyYardsNinetyTorchesDimesSprint Author:Donald Hall
“It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.” YearsBigsJobsGuyThreeHouseMillionsFiveFourPlayerCoupleBasketballBucksBasketball PlayerBig Houses Author:Frank Grillo
“I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.” MenYearsSchoolFourPlayerBasketballGladFour YearsBasketball PlayerMatured Author:Josh Howard
“That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.” IfsNeedsPlayWould BeFiveFourBasketballNeed You Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.” FirstsFourPlayerTeamLandCollegeBasketballFinalsCoachesApprovalStampsBasketball PlayerCollege Basketball Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I was starting out in the business, there was only one path to playing professionally - graduate, or go four years. With the creation of the ABA [American Basketball Association] in the early 1970s, the sanctity of having to go to college was broken. The ABA took anyone, starting with Spencer Haywood.” YearsPathFourCreationCollegeBrokenBasketballStartingAssociationFour YearsGraduatesSanctityStarting Out Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I played all four years [at St. Mary's College] with - at a certain point, basketball became the thing I was doing most, but it was really in my periphery.” YearsCertainFourCollegeBasketballFour YearsMaryPeriphery Author:Mahershala Ali
“When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.” ThreeEasyNumbersFourFootballBasketballBaseballThirdsPitcherQuarterbackStartersVersatilePlaying BaseballNumber Three Author:Future
“I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.” InspirationalFourBasketballImportance Author:Bobby Knight
“The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.” DoeMotivationalThreeFourOne ThingBasketballRebound Author:Dennis Rodman
“No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.” IfsKnowsHardPlayCareJobsFourTeamBasketballBiggerWho You AreDon't CareCoachingBasketball CoachingPlay Hard Author:Hubie Brown
“The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.” IfsWellsDoeSelfGuyGamesPayAttentionTeachFourPlayerMinutesSelf EsteemBasketballPressureFinalsEsteemPay AttentionCoachingRelaxRoutineVisualizationBasketball CoachingSelf Esteem And ConfidenceFree Throw Author:John Calipari
“The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.” SportsSecretFourPlayerCrazyBasketballEightCoachesCoachingTeamworkCheerTeammateBasketball CoachingBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballBasketball CoachCheer UpBasketball MotivationBasketball TeamTeam PlayerGood BasketballCooperation TeamworkGreat BasketballFunny BasketballBasketball LeadershipAwesome Basketball Author:Jerry Tarkanian
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” MotivationalSportsLeadershipFourBasketballMotivational SportsVolleyballToughnessFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMental StrengthMental ToughnessPhysical StrengthToughness In SportsSports Mental Toughness Author:Bobby Knight
“It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.” YearsHardBigsYoungThreeJusticeFourPlayerBasketballFour YearsDown The RoadBig Picture Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.” InspirationalFunnyGamesFourPlayerFeetLimitsBasketballGunExcitingRaisesSizeHeightDriversInchesCentreBasketsTaxiRefereeFunny Basketball Author:Al McGuire