I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness
You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.
I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.
I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura. . . It's not that I blame him, I just wish he'd go to a manly tactic and just fight me. Don't whine. When he whines, that's when I change his name of Lawrence Frank.
[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.
A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation. " Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway. " Reporter: "And you're going to shoot it down. " Popovich replied: "Next question. "
Your contribution as a coach is defending and rebounding.
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.
My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.
Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.
Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.
Live in the moment that you are in.
I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class
Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.