Top 100 Basketball Nba Quotes
#1. It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously, don't play with me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#2. The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
Grant Hill
#3. You do not want to make this guy mad. You see him sitting there all cool and calm, but underneath, he's thinking, he's plotting. I'm telling you, it's not normal. He's like Michael from 'The Godfather.' - Kevin Johnson on David Stern
R.E. Graswich
#4. After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
Dikembe Mutombo
#5. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd
#6. After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
Dikembe Mutombo
#7. They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.
Shaquille O'Neal
#8. I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.
Julius Peppers
#10. If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.
Tom Heinsohn
#11. Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, ... Driven From Within.
Michael Jordan
#12. Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
Shaquille O'Neal
#13. In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ass dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.
Allen Iverson
#14. I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.
LeBron James
#16. We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
Manu Ginobili
#18. I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
Allen Iverson
#19. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.
Hubie Brown
#20. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.
Mark Cuban
#21. I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.
Marcus Camby
#23. If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.
LeBron James
#24. Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
Bill Walton
#25. It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.
Kobe Bryant
#26. Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
John Wooden
#27. I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.
Allen Iverson
#28. Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.
Shaquille O'Neal
#29. Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.
Shaquille O'Neal
#30. My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.
Allen Iverson
#31. One time, I put up 40, 50 points dunking on Shawn Bradley. After the game, he brought his family over. He was like, 'This is my wife. She wants to take a picture.' I'm like, 'Nice to meet you.' I smile into the camera, take the picture, and then feel guilty about dunking on him so many times.
Shaquille O'Neal
#32. 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
#33. Get your tickets now. Buy cable now. Get your jerseys now. Pull your boats up to the docking stations now. Bring your Sea-Doos now. If you can't afford a Sea-Doo, get a raft.
Shaquille O'Neal
#34. I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.
LeBron James
#35. I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.
LeBron James
#36. Who could better motivate Bill Russell than Bill Russell?
Red Auerbach
#37. [The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.
Jerry West
#38. 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
#39. Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.
Allen Iverson
#40. Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.
Kobe Bryant
#41. They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.
Shaquille O'Neal
#42. I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
Ramon Rodriguez
#43. I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.
Allen Iverson
#44. I'm pretty much able to play any style. I'm not here to demand 40 or 50 shots. But I would like 30.
Shaquille O'Neal
#45. On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.
Bill Russell
#46. In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
Pat Summerall
#47. Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.
John Wooden
#48. As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.
Shaquille O'Neal
#49. We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach.
Shaquille O'Neal
#50. If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
Shaquille O'Neal
#51. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
John Wooden
#52. It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!
Chris Bosh
#53. So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.
Kevin Garnett
#54. By delivering a wide array of programming to YouTube, the NBA will be able to connect with its existing worldwide fan base and reach a vast new audience that is passionate about basketball.
Chad Hurley
#55. Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.
Shaquille O'Neal
#56. When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.
Allen Iverson
#58. I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.
Allen Iverson
#59. Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.
Shaquille O'Neal
#60. They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.
Erik Spoelstra
#61. I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
Coby Bell
#62. My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
Goran Ivanisevic
#63. Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.
Magic Johnson
#66. If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.
Art Rust Jr.
#67. I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.
LeBron James
#68. It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out ... I am here to serve your every need, King James.
Shaquille O'Neal
#69. I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson
#70. My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North
#71. I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.
LeBron James
#73. It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#74. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
John Wooden
#75. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#76. A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, ... But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause.
Kobe Bryant
#77. There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.
LeBron James
#78. You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!
Shaquille O'Neal
#79. I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
Shaquille O'Neal
#80. Stephen A. Smith is the hardest-working man in sports show business. The ubiquitous basketball pundit appears on ESPN about 10 times a day as a regular on the show 'NBA Fastbreak,' a guest commentator on 'Sports Center,' and a pundit on 'ESPNEWS.'
Stephen Rodrick
#82. Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.
Tony Gonzalez
#84. I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.
Shane Battier
#85. Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.
Isiah Thomas
#87. Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
George Karl
#88. I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP.
Steve Nash
#89. Do your best when no one is looking.
Bob Cousy
#91. I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#92. I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'
LeBron James
#93. There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.
Lamar Odom
#94. The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.
Kobe Bryant
#95. I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.
Moses Malone
#96. If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
Gary Dornhoefer
#97. I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.
David Stern
#98. The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.
Geno Auriemma
#99. These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
Bob Cousy
#100. People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.
Allen Iverson
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