Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.

I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school.

I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

Basketball more than any other sport is a team game about the thousands of small unselfish acts the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Basketball is a team game. But that doesnt mean all five players should take the same amount of shots

A leaders job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers sense of commitment.

If you make every game a life and death proposition youre going to have problems. For one thing youll be dead a lot.

If you make every game a life and death thing youre going to have problems. Youll be dead a lot.

Play hard. Play smart. Play together.

What to do with a mistake - recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

A lion never roars after a kill.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season.

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us year-round, where as kids we had the opportunity to play football, basketball, baseball, track and field - we just went from one sport to the next, year-round.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

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.

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.