Quotes About Basketball

I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.

A lot of guys can shoot two, three, four, five, six, seven, 10 feet behind the 3-point line. A lot of people can do it. It's just, when is it going to be considered a good shot? When are coaches going to encourage you to shoot that shot?

When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.

Lots of coaches like to draw up a play in a timeout and most, if not all of them, are drawn up against man-to-man type coverages and defenses.

I love the game of basketball; I love coaching. The attention, being on TV, all that stuff, that's not what it's about for me.

I don't know about any others, but coaching basketball is the only thing I can do.

You're not going to see Bill Walton or Kareem coming in every three years. Those days are over. That's what makes the job so difficult. But it's the dream job for anyone who has spent a career in coaching and has a sense of what UCLA means.

You need talent and good coaching to be successful in the NBA.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

Playing basketball all my life, I've collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It's pretty much all I wear.

I thought going to Colorado gave me the best chance to get to the league, and I wanted to play in the Pac-12.

My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.

We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

Marc Gasol, everybody compares me to him. I try to look up to him and see how he plays and adjust my game like him.

I love the game of basketball. I don't know if I like it better than competing.

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

I have been able to live my dream of playing basketball surrounded by people I love and being cheered on by the best fans in the world.

I love playing basketball more than I love getting fined and getting suspended.