"Young man, you have the question backwards."--Bill Russell, after a reporter asked him how he would have fared against Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
"In basketball -- as in life -- true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way."
- PHIL JACKSON, Sacred Hoops
"Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up."
~Bill Vaughn
āIām like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.ā - Lebron James
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - 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
"Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day."
"Incompetence should not be confined to one sex."--on his opinion of female referees
"What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection."