Words matter. These are the best Becky Hammon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For me, I think it’s such a notable point to make that a leader had to believe, a leader had to see that potential.
But I think in the midst of working, you can’t get too crazy serious.
And a pick and roll in the women’s game is a pick and roll on the men’s game… I mean, character, working for each other – trusting your teammates. That stuff, that’s universal.
People ask me all the time, will there ever be a woman player in the NBA? To be honest, no. There are differences. The guys are too big, too strong and that’s just the way it is.
Playing basketball for me is like breathing.
It’s 2015, and I’m the first female coach in any of the major sports. That’s ridiculous!
Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I’ve always been someone who did it uphill.
You shouldn’t get into coaching unless you care about the people you’re leading.
If I went to play for Lithuania or Latvia, no one would have talked about it.
I was living my dream as a WNBA player.
But it’s been a learning experience; learning the NBA, learning the travel schedule and certain coaches, their styles, what they like to run out of timeouts, personnel, tendencies.
My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.
Let’s just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.
The greatest thing about sports, to me, is just the crossover into everyday life.
Hope and encouragement, especially hope, is probably one of the greatest things you can give another person.
I just think there’s a real art in listening. I need to listen.
I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.
It’s one thing to watch the NBA, but when you have to be there for every film session, every practice, it’s a grind. It’s a lot of hard work.
If you don’t want a female coach, don’t hire one!
I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.
I feel like I’ve had 20 years of experience at a very high level, if you throw in college, playing overseas, I’ve played in hundreds and hundreds of games.
It’s not that I set out to say, ‘I’m going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.’ That really – it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.
I know who I am. When you get comfortable with yourself like that and you know you’re doing the right thing, you can take a lot of crap.
But when it comes to things of the mind, things like coaching, game-planning, coming up with offensive and defensive schemes, there’s no reason why a woman couldn’t be in the mix and shouldn’t be in the mix.
You’re getting to know these guys as people, and as players. You have to develop a rapport. They give me a lot of respect.
I… scout, I’m in all the film sessions, I’m in all the coaches meetings, I travel… I’m in on everything.
You have those people speaking really good things in your life and it grows and produces fruit later on. But somebody had to initially plant those good seeds.
The last reason I want to be hired is because of my gender. I want to be hired because you trust me, because of my potential, because you believe that I know basketball, and we go and we build from there.
Your mind is just constantly moving, thinking of different scenarios, not only on your team but their team too, trying to figure out things they are doing.
It’s just really awesome to be rewarded for all your hard work; that people take notice of how I treated my teammates, how I was in my community.
