"It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players."

People, Strategy, Basketball

15

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players."

Exlpore more People quotes

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, First

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

People, Company

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

People, Feeling, Opera

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

People, Belief, Blind

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

People, Wants, Dreams, Action

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

People,

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

People, Trouble

Explore more quotes by Isaiah Thomas

"All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that."

Management

"I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it."

Life

"I love what I'm doing."

Love

"We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient."

Sports

"My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball."

Life

"How can I tell the eighth or ninth man on the team that I want you to work hard every day and I want you to improve and get better, but while you're doing that you're not going to get any minutes?"

Work

"The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run the offense. You should still be concerned on the offense side of the ball."

Athletes

"It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It's hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish."

Thought

"I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league."

Sports

"We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the changes were because of injuries. But that's where I give a lot of credit to the group in terms of being able to maintain things."

Being