Top 30 Basketball Stars Quotes
#1. We want to show how hip-hop, which kind of fuels today's basketball stars, is directly related to jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#2. 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
#3. I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.
David Miliband
#4. I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
Candy Crowley
#5. I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.
Bill Laimbeer
#6. The team is the star, never an individual player.
John Wooden
#7. This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.
Maxwell Maltz
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#14. 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
#15. When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
John Mellencamp
#16. Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
John Webster
#17. 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
#18. To reach people that no one is reaching you have to do things that no one is doing.
Craig Groeschel
#19. 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
#20. Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
Edward De Bono
#21. Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Bill Vaughan
#22. 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
#23. We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
Al McGuire
#24. 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
#25. Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
Lana Del Rey
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
Oscar Robertson
