Top 30 Basketball Stars Quotes
#1. Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
#3. And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself.
James Jones
#4. The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.
John Wooden
#5. 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
#6. Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del Rey
#7. I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
#8. We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
Al McGuire
#9. 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
#10. When he noticed that pro basketball stars were far less likely to be called for traveling than lesser players, he didn't just holler at the refs. He stopped watching basketball altogether; the injustice of it killed his interest in the sport.
Michael Lewis
#11. Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Bill Vaughan
#12. Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
Edward De Bono
#13. I would never do 'Dancing With The Stars,' because it's just not fair. I am too good of a dancer. It would be like LeBron James playing little league basketball.
Terry Crews
#14. To reach people that no one is reaching you have to do things that no one is doing.
Craig Groeschel
#15. We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#16. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.
Jonathan Groff
#17. Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
#18. When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
John Mellencamp
#19. I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.
Kobe Bryant
#21. Damian Lillard is having a better year than Chris Paul. Lillard got snubbed when he was left off of the USA Men's Basketball team, and now the All-Star team.
Kenny Smith
#22. My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.
Jamie Foxx
#23. The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.
Yao Ming
#24. Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.
George Vecsey
#25. Tiger had the advantage of high school, college, and a father who knew golf. I was self-taught. Blacks really won't play golf in great numbers until some of these basketball and football stars buy some golf courses where blacks can play.
Charlie Sifford
#26. This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz
#27. The team is the star, never an individual player.
John Wooden
#28. I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.
Bill Laimbeer
#29. I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
Candy Crowley
#30. I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
David Miliband
