Sentence examples for basketball mentality from inspiring English sources

"Pat brings that basketball mentality," Toomey said.

"That's when I really got that killer basketball mentality and when good stuff started to happen to me," he says.

As Chinese athletes get a better sense of Yao's fame, will the playground-basketball mentality become more prevalent?

For ESPN's Kate Fagan, a former college basketball player, that mentality forces female athletes to be judged not just on their own abilities but also in comparison to men, who are inherently bigger, stronger and faster.

Instead of playing basketball that thing like, "To get out the hood you better rap or play ball"—this is like my basketball in the gallery mentality.

"We've got to play good smart basketball on the road, change our mentality and do the things we do here," Rutgers's Rashod Kent said.

For those of us steeped in the must-win mentality of American baseball, football and basketball, Cherundolo's last sentence may seem a jarring.

"In the N.B.A., in particular, there's a glorification of the tycoon mentality," explains Jon Wertheim, a tennis and basketball commentator for Sports Illustrated.

She said she was often the last player chosen in pickup games with the older boys from the neighborhood, but she quickly developed a mentality that encapsulates a New York basketball player.

There is a certain underdog mentality that the Estancia High girls' basketball team carries with it.

"I've always had that mentality, whether it's in soccer or basketball, baseball.