Top 31 Basketball Character Quotes
#1. Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.
Leonard Sweet
#3. Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.
Joe Gibbs
#4. Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.
Shaquille O'Neal
#5. Winning takes character. Workers get the most out of themselves. When a body has limited talent, it must muster all its resources of character to overcome adversity.
Pete Carril
#6. Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#7. In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Eddie Murphy
#8. You can't be a good leader without good character.
Tony Boselli
#10. The true athlete should have character, not be a character
John Wooden
#11. The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
Julie Delpy
#13. We've got very few bodies right now so we were tired, but we've also got a lot of character and we want to win.
Steve Nash
#14. I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
Mark Waters
#15. Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.
Christopher Titus
#16. Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
Stephen Covey
#17. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#18. Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.
Jeff Greenfield
#19. I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.
Liz Phair
#20. Your career and your passion don't always match up.
Amy Poehler
#21. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.
Gilbert Arenas
#22. I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
Roger Goodell
#23. Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better
Jeff Van Gundy
#25. Silence is the song of eternity; it is the expression of eternal beauty.
Debasish Mridha
#27. You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.
Theodore Bikel
#28. But diplomacy would be easy if we had to talk only to our friends. That's not how peace is made.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#29. Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.
Wendy Walker
#30. My mom always tells me that ... Nobody is going to remember you for the great basketball player you are but they will remember you for the character you have off the court and how many lives you're changed.
Isaiah Austin
#31. The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
Joe Morton
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