“After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'” ThinkingWantShouldSaidGamesPresidentWeekTeamBasketballGolfMore TimePresident ObamaCrushedJordanCharlotteBasketball TeamGolf GameHornets Author:Jimmy Fallon
“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
“I'll take 14 out of 15 any day of the week, any week of the month, any month of the year, any year of the century. I don't know what comes after century.” KnowsYearsWinningWeekCenturyMonthsBasketballDays Of The WeekMonths Of The Year Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.” KnowsLastsKnow HowWeekBasketballLakers Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.” LittlesGamesBitsToo MuchFocusWeekMissingCoupleBasketballLittle BitPreparationNutsBoltsNuts And BoltsGame Day Author:Vince Kehres
“Once we announce the staff here, in the next week, two weeks, whatever it takes, I think everyone's going to be shocked at how good a staff we put together.” ThinkingTwoTogetherNextWeekBasketballStaffShockedTwo WeeksWhatever It TakesNext Week Author:Nate Oats
“My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.” SchoolGuyTeacherWeekTeachingDadBasketballHigh SchoolMy DadCoachesFamiliarCoachingGood JobFridayHometownVery Famous Author:Tony Dungy
“I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.” LostWeekBasketballVegasLas VegasMirages Author:Dennis Rodman
“March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.” BigsTurnsDealsWeekFansFoolMonthsBasketballMercyFinalsMonstersGentlemanMarchSheepGood FriendFinals Week Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.” IfsThinkingLaughingWeekSpecialCryBasketballSevenNbaSomething SpecialBasketball CoachSeven DaysGreat BasketballDon't Ever Give Up Author:Jim Valvano
“You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos” BigsTogetherGuyGamesBlackWhiteTalkingWeekBasketballMadEmsSlickWhite GuysBasketball GameBlack Guys Author:George Carlin
“Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.” WantInspirationalYearsPlayGuyGamesMillionsWeekBasketballJamPlaygroundsDays Of The WeekBasketball GameYmca Author:Adam Carolla
“What does this program/team need this week?” NeedsDoeWeekTeamBasketballProgramCoachingBasketball Coaching Author:Dick Bennett