Jim Calhoun famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win humility.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Basketball #Humility #Winning
We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Basketball #Block #Player
We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Basketball #Mistake #Mean
The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Games #Giving #Language
My best advice to you â€” shut up.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Advice #Shut Up #Best Advice
Sometimes you're blessed with teams that are incredibly talented, but there's chaos. But sometimes you're blessed, as I have been this year, to have kids who think the same way you do.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Team #Blessed #Kids
Every team is flawed. There hasn't been a truly complete team in a while.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Team #Flaws #Flawed
Get some facts and come back and see me!
-- Jim Calhoun

#Facts
My best advice to you: Shut up.
-- Jim Calhoun

#Advice #Shut Up #Best Advice

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.
As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Jim Calhoun famous quotes

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