Quotes About Basketball

You know that's pretty much your role as the rookie: Defend and rebound. Those are the two main things.

Since I've been a part of this league, I can't recall when they've actually made rules that have actually helped to improve the game of basketball.

I am overjoyed to receive the Michael H. Goldberg Coach of the Year Award from the National Basketball Coaches Association.

Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

Given the way Duke plays its offense and defense, in high school I was very interested in playing for Coach K. Then when you get there and see how good he is, you buy into it a hundred percent. He has a recipe for how to be successful on the court.

Here in the U.K., I want basketball to get better. I want the kids to have more playgrounds. I want the kids to have more attention. I want basketball to be on TV more often. But I really don't care if I walk down the street and somebody recognises me or not.

That's the thing about basketball - you do good things and you start to get recognition.

I would watch San Antonio play and see plays I recognized from the Russian team, the Yugoslavian team.

Duke recruits the best basketball players. They don't recruit dunkers or highlight makers. They recruit good basketball players.

I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN 'Coaches Corner' show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.

Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can't keep the Georgia kids home. What that means - he's not cheating and paying. That's what it means.

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.

When Coach Mike Brey at Notre Dame was recruiting me, he was like, 'There will be Irish on the front of the jersey; and Irish on the back of the jersey.' But no one actually knows I am a citizen over there.

I've said this about many people, but when you were recruiting against John Beilein you knew it was a fair fight, a real fight and he was going to do it the right way. I have a lot of respect for John. He's a heck of a coach and he will do a great job in Cleveland.

My biggest concern for the Lakers - and they're going have to figure out a way to rectify this - is Lonzo Ball.

My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.

I love it when coaches don't talk about which position they see me at. When they just refer to me as a basketball player and talk about all of the different positions they can see me playing in, I definitely listen more.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

Being 6'7' as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.

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