Basketball Skills Quotes

#1. I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.

Michael Jordan

#2. Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#3. The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

Peja Stojakovic

#4. It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

#5. The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

Walt Frazier

#6. You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality

Michael Malone

#7. Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Antonio Gates

#8. There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

John Frankenheimer

#9. As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

Billy Donovan

#10. People play the victim forever," she continued. "But who are they kidding? They are only robbing themselves. Life doesn't owe you anything. Neither does anyone else. Only you owe yourself. So the best way to make the most out of life is to appreciate the gift of it, and choose not to be a victim.

Bronnie Ware

#11. Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race - it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.

Orson Scott Card

#12. Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.

Don Yaeger

#13. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.

Walt Frazier

#14. I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#15. The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive

Mike Murdock

#16. I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

Tim Hardaway

#17. Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

Loren Eiseley

#18. Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

Ehab Atalla

#19. I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Luke Mably

#20. A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared

Jack Ramsay

#21. So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of the things that you learn during the process of being educated. How to analyze, how to assess, how to equate, how to reason.

Julius Erving

#22. Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.

Hamish Bowles