Basketball Team Championship Quotes & Sayings

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in. — Don Meyer

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship. — Don Meyer

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do — Doc Rivers

There's been injuries to where my perseverance may have gotten overlooked-just my hard work and what I bring to a franchise and to a team may have gotten overlooked. But it's a matter of staying professional and playing the game of basketball and ultimately doing whatever it takes to win a championship for your teammates. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times. — Hubie Brown

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable — Jason Kidd

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team. — Mike Krzyzewski

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined talent with great defense. You've got to stop other teams to win. — Pat Riley

A lot of people talk about the Fab Five, and they were wonderful, one of the best teams you'll ever see in college basketball. But the '89 team is the best one to ever play at Michigan in my opinion because they won the national championship. Winning a championship is winning a championship. — Trey Burke

For us to be the team that got him that historic 10th championship is special for us. — Kobe Bryant

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships ... We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this. — Lauren Jackson