“Good basketball teams have to do that if you want to be standing at the end of the year. You have to play through that sort of thing. ... All that matters is the end result. The character of (this) team shows when you can play through that sort of thing.”
Gregg Popovich
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
Bobby Knight
“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.”
Isiah Thomas
“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.”
John Wooden
“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'”
James Naismith
“What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.”
“They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.”
Earvin Magic Johnson
