Top 25 Basketball History Quotes
#1. He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'
Tom Heinsohn
#2. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.
Oscar Robertson
#3. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
Mark E. Hyman
#4. Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.
Kurt Busch
#5. John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
Bill Walton
#6. No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
Bill Walton
#7. I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
Bill Walton
#8. I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.
John Burnham Schwartz
#9. A life was a story, and a story was nothing more than a promise that something bad would happen. It was a promise that people would desire and want and ache and burn, but it was not a promise that they would find what they sought.
Matthew J. Hefti
#10. Hey, I try and have an open container with me no matter what state I'm in." She
Craig Johnson
#12. We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
Bill Walton
#13. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Shimon Peres
#14. A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.
Vera Nazarian
#15. I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.
Bill Russell
#16. On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
Nancy Gibbs
#17. New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
Alistair Cooke
#18. That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.
Asa Larsson
#19. Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.
Jaggi Vasudev
#20. When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future ...
Muhammad Yunus
#21. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;
Red Auerbach
#22. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
LeBron James
#23. Aaron Sisson was the last man on the little black railway-line
D.H. Lawrence
#24. I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.
Oscar Robertson
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