Quotes & Sayings About Winning Basketball Games

I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win. — Sherman Douglas

Coaches win practices, players win games — Pete Carril

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play. — Don Meyer

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game — Jack Ramsay

If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships — Zeljko Obradovic

I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for. — Larry Bird

We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games. — Carmelo Anthony

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness — Brad Stevens

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. — Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan, the basketball great, is a case in point. In a famous Nike commercial, he said: 'I've missed more than nine thousand shots. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.' For many the ad was perplexing. Why boast about your mistakes? But to Jordan it made perfect sense. 'Mental toughness and heart are a lot stronger than some of the physical advantages you might have,' he said. 'I've always said that and I've always believed that.' James — Matthew Syed

I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that. — Dirk Nowitzki

You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches — Red Auerbach

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them. — Rick Majerus

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy. — Gregg Popovich

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me. — Chamique Holdsclaw

So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games — Geno Auriemma

I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here. — Allen Iverson

It was a weird game. There was ugly shooting and a lot of turnovers and mistakes, and we were just fortunate to get the win. I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game ... I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer's table. Ugly people call ugly games. — Shaquille O'Neal

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow — Mike Krzyzewski

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. — Pat Summitt

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships. — LeBron James

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games — John Wooden