The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.
If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.
I'm not going to disappear.
The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.
I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.
Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.
Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.
I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.
The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. . . . Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.
I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.
You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?
Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Five players on the floor functioning as a single unit: team, team, team-no one more important than the other.