🏀 KuBuckets Archive

Need message of the day quotes -- can you guys drop a few on me so I have something to cycle through? If they're current and entertaining, brilliant, if they're not current but memorable, great too. I want something I can fall back on and cycle through if we don't have current quotes so I don't need to feel bummed out that I'm not jaybate when I stare at a blank yellow box with a blinking cursor in it and nothing comes to mind. Thanks!

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
Wilt Chamberlain
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/wilt_chamberlain.html#v0yg3kW3LkOY1fkj.99 ↗

“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.”
― Robert Montgomery Knight

"He can make plays you can’t coach, then he can make plays you wonder if he’s ever been coached. But that’s him. I’m glad we got him.”

“It’s the worst team Kansas has ever put on the floor since Dr. Naismith was here. I think he had some bad teams when he lost to Topeka YMCA in his first couple years.”

Bill

“I’m not going anywhere. I’m a Jayhawk for life.”

Anrio Adams

“I don’t remember anything he said, but it was a very memorable speech.”

Julian Wright

"I asked him what made him change his mind about Illinois and Arizona. He said the best way to explain it is that you have three hot dogs, but you want a hamburger. He was confused choosing the best of those three hot dogs. So he said when his hamburger came and told him what happened, he went for his hamburger."

Freddie Barnes, H-F senior guard and one of Wright's closest friends.

@dylans forgot about that JuJu quote. That's a classic.

"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler."
W. C. Fields

"My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too."
Rodney Dangerfield

Possibly apocryphal.. but entertaining nonetheless:

"Ain't no seats."

• Sherron Collins

...And last but not least, "There's two kinds of ballplayers that aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told."
Bum Phillips

                                                    ...To be continued

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
Mark Twain

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
John Wooden

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Johnny Carson

A word to the wise ain't necessary; it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Mitch Hedberg

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

Used this one because this board needed Quiz's moustache.

In anticipation of the first exhibition game tomorrow:
PUT YOUR SHOES ON!
Elijah Johnson

What doesn't kill you will probably put you in the ER and ICU.

@JRyman Love your avatar picture. Was my background pic for months at one point.

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."
Gordie Howe

"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
George Brett

"They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic."
Wilt Chamberlain

And finally for today....."The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
William Arthur Ward

More tomorrow.

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody.

Bobby Knight

The opposite of this philosophy flourishes at certain schools.

"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."
George S. Patton

"I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place."
James Naismith

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."
Casey Stengel

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Epictetus

"There's not many things less important than the score at halftime. It's kind of like that deal with the race. Seven games in, who really knows?"
Bill Self

"Brandon says a lot of things. He also said Ashley Judd was looking at him at the Kentucky game."
~ Bill Self

Any excuse for a pic of Ashley!

"I told 'em I'd rather be mad at them and win than be happy and lose."

Bill Self

"There may be other teams that travel as well as we do, but nobody travels better."
Bill Self

"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it."

Charles Barkley

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."

Wilt Chamberlain

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Vince Lombardi

"Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their players and motivate."

Vince Lombardi

Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan.

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. And the rest of them that have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
Will Rogers

"Success is one percent inspiration, ninety eight perspiration, and two percent attention to detail."

Phil Dunphy

"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead."

Jim Valvano

"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian."
- Henry Ford

"You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work."
Lee Trevino

"Nobody roots for Goliath."
Wilt Chamberlain

"Nobody roots for Goliath."
Wilt Chamberlain

WINNER! :-)

"I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does."
Joe Garagiola

"There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works."
Charley Lau

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."
Joe Frazier

"Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man."
Satchel Paige

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano

"Winning isn't everything ........it's the only thing."
Vince Lombardi

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
Vince Lombardi

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

In reference to Joel Embiid's story of killing a lion as a youth - #LiesToldByAfricans

Naadir Tharpe

" I saw Kansas practice about 25 days ago and thought they were really good. They are WAY better than I thought. "

Jay Bilas
11/12/13

"I Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore I always carry a small snake."
W. C. Fields

"When I eventually met Mrs. Right I had no idea that her first name was Always."
Anonymous

"When I looked up my family tree I found out I was the sap."
Rodney Dangerfield

Married men may live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
Johnny Carson

"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs".
Charles de Gaulle

"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot."
Bill Russell

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Jim Valvano

Thanks guys, for keeping this thread active. @globaljaybird Your quote was perfect timing for yesterday -- I was struggling for inspiration when it popped up.

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."
Abe Lemons

"Babe, do you think you should make more money than the president of the United States?" Babe Ruth, "Well I did have a better year than he did".

I've read this quote of Babe Ruth's somewhere, not sure where, but it is memorable.

"Success is when preparation meets opportunity."

He didn't coin it, but he said it after winning the NCAA Championship in 1988. Our own Danny Manning.

"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

"I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans."

Bill Walton

"Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired."
Lou Holtz

@globaljaybird

"That's what someone NOT named Wilt Chamberlain would say. I block EVERY shot."

Wilt Chamberlain (in nuleaf's dream)

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

If two wise men agree, then there is no need for one of them.
- Zambian proverb

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one things of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note."
Hank Stram

Everybody talks about the weather but no one does a damn thing about it.

Unknowwn

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
"Billings

“You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.”

Larry Brown

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.”

Knute Rockne

From Jules Renard (pre-WW I French author):

• "Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it."
• "If money doesn't make you happy, give it back."
• "Laziness is the habit of resting before you get tired."
• "If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more."

And my favorite:
"At last I know the difference between man and beast: money problems."

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
Red Auerbach

"If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?" - Steven Wright

"Computers are useless. All they give you is answers." - Pablo Picasso

"Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it."

Paul

( 1 Corinthians 9:24 )

It's such a fine line between stupid and uh... clever.

-- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap

(I know, it's not basketball related.. but it's one of my favorite quotes.)

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

Babe Ruth

“The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard?"

"Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"

Joe DiMaggio

"We Stinks" Carlos Zambrano

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden

"The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it".
Casey Stengel

"Them damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody."
Abe Lemons

"I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture."
Bob Uecker

(Of Joel Embiid)

" The dude is 7 feet tall. Just get the ball inside to him! "

Bill Self

(facepalm)

" What in the world was I thinking? What kind of idiot voluntarily takes a coaching job in a league where Bill Self - BILL SELF !! - is your arch-rival? "

Bruce Weber

Ok, I repent. That's a bald-faced lie. I am 74.4 % certain that Bruce Weber has never spoken those words. Out loud.

But you know he has to be thinking it.....

"This is your moment. You're meant to be here."

Herb Brooks

"I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream".
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

" Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your own two ears. "

Laird Hamilton

( While at Utah and getting ready to play Kentucky )

" They have all those McDonald's All-Americas. We have four guys on our team who don't even have a McDonald's in their town. "

Rick Majerus

"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."
George Orwell

"You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him."
Lou Holtz

" If I went West, I think I would go to Kansas. "
Abraham Lincoln

Rock Chalk Abe !!!

"Saturday night was another reminder that Phog Allen, not Cameron, is the best, loudest and most intimidating basketball arena in the country. The alma mater sound, the Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant, the swaying of the crowd, and the deafening noise at times, make The Phog a true treasure in the sport."

Andy Katz, ESPN reporter

" I think my defense is underrated. "

Andrew Wiggins

Markieff Morris, earning a technical foul after a call by NBA ref/fellow Philadelphia native Joey Crawford, via OrlandoMagic.com’s John Denton:

"You can't come back to Philly after that."

"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win" Bobby Knight

"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

Wilfred Owen

"Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra"

"I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
Bear Bryant"

" Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible. "

Chely Wright

Country Music Artist

" They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil. "

Jay Leno
(Of KU's 2008 NCAA National Championship victory)

" Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. " Vince Lombardi

If we did all the things we were capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ~ Albert Einstein

When someone does something good, applaud! You'll make two people happy. ~ Sam Goldwyn

"Sport has the power to change the world." Nelson Mandela
We gotta put this one up.

As Wigs was hammered going to the rack & resulting no call & subsequent game changing momentum swing vs UF last night, immediately came to mind the quote from Bob Uecker in Major League...

"We got hosed on that call!"

I haven't gotten tired of Joel grinning at us.. but maybe you guys want to switch it up. Anyone have more KU basketball specific stuff? I'm enjoying staying close to home with the quotes now that the season is really rolling.

@approxinfinity Joel is fine with me! Maybe Saturday's game will give more material.

“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

Hunter S. Thompson

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."

Billy Graham

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

Heywood Broun

"Pay heed we have Embiid" sign in Allen Fieldhouse crowd

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

@approxinfinity Will breakout the copy over the holidays for more specific/relevant material.

@jaybate Here ya go man... you probably couldn't find it because we hid it over in the Bugs/Request bucket! Adding your quote here:

"I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other."--Al Oerter

The winner of the rat race is still a rat.

"If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work."

Chuck Daly

"It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Now get back down the floor on defense!"
Oscar Robertson

"When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish."

Wilt Chamberlain

"It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."
--Kurt Vonnegut

"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit."
-- John Wooden. UCLA Basketball Coach

"Ted, this is coach Bryant. I want you to feature the kids, not me."
-- Bear Bryant, Alabama football coach (1977 phone call to world renowned painter Ted Watts

@globaljaybird Wait a sec, thats a Truman quote, the Wooden one... I see what you/Wooden did there.

"Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets."
Bob Uecker

@JayHawkFanToo: PHOF!

@jaybate 1.0 Ummmm.... I wonder who in previous years, referenced a certain Coach Konsonants as.........rat face? LOL
.........Surely no malice was intended.

@globaljaybird that could have been anyone on here, you'll have to be more specific.

That quote would be specifically good for the motd if Duke were to win it all ever again for sure.

"My wife--my wife! --can score more than two buckets on eleven shots, because I know my wife will at least shot-fake one time." Barry Hinson

@approxinfinity That would have been none other than jaybate of course, on the old LJW board.

@globaljaybird We've all seen this I'm sure, but it still belongs somewhere on our site.
!Coach K's true form ↗

@approxinfinity 'tis the season "I’m in a great mood and I think there’s a lot of things we did well and everybody have a damn Happy New Year!" Bill Self

@approxinfinity

"Don't worry about being better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can be."

Joshua Hugh Wooden, Coach Wooden's Father

@approxinfinity

“The trouble with referees is that they just don’t care which side wins.” – Tom Canterbury

@approxinfinity

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” – Muhammad Ali

@approxinfinity

“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” – Lou Brock

@approxinfinity

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” – John Wooden

“Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.”

@globaljaybird thanks man.

@approxinfinity

“Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.” – Roger Bannister

@approxinfinity

“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” – Steve Garvey

@approxinfinity

"My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off."

Hakeem Olajuwon

@approxinfinity

"What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player."

Tom Heinsohn

@approxinfinity

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

Jim Ryun

@approxinfinity From the recently departed Johnny Orr who was very quotable:
“I guess we’re the state champs. Make sure you put that in the paper.”
Dec. 11, 1993, after an 86-79 victory over visiting Iowa.

And this gem:
When Iowa State hired Jim Criner from Boise State to be our head coach they had a nice press conference to announce this. Johnny Orr attended this press conference and it went something like the following:

Reporter: Jim what are your feelings about being at Iowa State?

Jim: I'm real excited to be here. These players are big and fast and I can't wait to get on the field this spring and see what we can do!

Johnny: You think these guys are fast, you should see the ****ers from Nebraska!

"I'm fascinated by beautiful women, and I love to undress them. They're like a work of art. If that's chauvinistic, so be it." Jerry Buss

Something lighthearted after SDSU.

@approxinfinity

“Sportsmanship for me is when a guy walks off the court and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.” – Jim Courier

“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” – Rogers Hornsby

"
Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals."

James Naismith

@approxinfinity

"I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history."
Al Oerter

@approxinfinity

" I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life."
Gale Sayers

" I was out there just playing and not thinking "

Wayne Selden
Jan. 8, 2014

(Of Allen Field House)
" It's the St. Patrick's Cathedral of College Basketball."

Fran Fraschilla

KSU senior Shane Southwell,

“It’s crucial,” he added of the game in Allen Fieldhouse. “I never won there or even got close to winning there. I want to get a win there. It is going to be hard to look back on my life and say I did not get a win in that arena.”

Gonna have to live with that one, bud.

"You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you."
Yogi Berra

“Kansas is still the favorite. Wiggins is, from what I understand, the best player to ever play. I’ve seen him play and he’s really good. They’re still the No. 1 team and should be. They’ve got tons of talent, they’ve got depth, they’ve got the best player to ever play at Kansas and that’s a pretty good deal.” Travis Ford

@dylans I like your post, but little Travis has it all wrong. The best player to ever play at Kansas is Wilt.

@approxinfinity

"I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over."

Hakeem Olajuwon

@approxinfinity

"You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself"
.
Karl Malone

@approxinfinity

"They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school."

Karl Malone

@approxinfinity

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."

Bill Russell

@approxinfinity

"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win."

Bum Phillips

@nuleafjhawk +100

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.
Kobe Bryant

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There's that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?
LeBron James

You have to be able to accept failure to get better
LeBron James

And a couple of very telling quotes from LeBron:

The first time I stepped on an NBA court, I became a businessman.
LeBron James

My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.
LeBron James

@nuleafjhawk I completely agree. Travis Ford was just being a sarcastic jerk.

1. Wilt
2. Manning
3. JoJo
4. Clyde L.
5. Pierce
6. Chalmers

“I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can’t play there, you should be home with your mama.” Karl Malone - New York Times.

“Just hit the guy next to you. Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don’t let somebody come in your space.” Karl Malone - ESPN

The way it should be played down low. Embiid won't get penalized for being big in the NBA. Don't drive him away No Contact Athletic Association.

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."

Red Auerbach

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."

Michael Phelps

"The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport."

Andrew Young

"Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again."

Carl Lewis

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Bill James

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Willie Mays

"I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate."

Bill James

@approxinfinity

"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."

Alfred Whitney Griswold

@approxinfinity

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

Lao Tzu

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." —Indira Gandhi

"Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of confidence." —Vince Lombardi

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." —William Jennings Bryan

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." —Theodore Roosevelt

Athletic Directors should heed this advice.

I really like this one...

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows." —Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." —Dwight D. Eisenhower

and the corollary...

"Coaching looks mighty easy when the court and players are your computer screen and keyboard." - JayHawkFanToo

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." -Robert Louis Stevenson

Embiid told the Associated Press. “Things could change, but I love college. I’m having so much fun on campus, with my teammates. When we play, we have 16,000 people. It’s crazy. It’s not the same thing when you’re in the league.”

@dylans this is much better than Rick Barnes quote and completely the opposite thought!

It is more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

@lighthawk Today's pirates are tomorrow's admirals.

@approxinfinity

"Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight."

Michael Jordan

@approxinfinity

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team".

John Wooden

@approxinfinity

"Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life."

John Wooden

@approxinfinity

"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."

Lou Holtz

@approxinfinity

"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not"

Charles Barkley

@approxinfinity Could we start another thread? It takes me awhile to load everything to get to the bottom, and I do enjoy the quotes. How about a category and change the thread every month?

"Republicans buy shoes too." Michael Jordan when asked about why he doesn't speak up on social issues in society.

@parishawk definitely. It's a bear getting to the end. Let's lock this thread and move on.