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"These close games that we're losing, the teams are not beating us. We're kind of beating ourselves."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and I'm a Baltimore Orioles fan. I have them tattooed on me."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work"
Quote by -Dean Smith
"You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does"
Quote by -Dean Smith
"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."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"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."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"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."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots."
Quote by -Dean Smith
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Quote by -Yogi Berra
That's the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.
Quote by -Wayne Gretzky
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
Quote by -Wayne Gretzky
I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
Quote by -Wayne Gretzky
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Quote by -Wayne Gretzky
I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
Quote by -Wayne Gretzky
As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
Quote by -Wangari Maathai
I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.
Quote by -Wayne Rooney
If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
Quote by -Wayne Rooney