Top 43 Good Basketball Player Quotes
#1. If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
Isaiah Thomas
#2. Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.
Bill Goldberg
#3. Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.
John Wooden
#4. Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.
Gilbert Arenas
#5. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.
Pete Carril
#6. To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.
Norm Sloan
#7. People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.
Oscar Robertson
#8. My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.
Justin Timberlake
#9. As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.
Carmelo Anthony
#10. Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.
Rajneesh
#12. Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
Jim Morrison
#13. Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win
Doug Collins
#14. Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.
Mercedes Lackey
#15. I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to be pretty good. Something just drew me to football; besides, I ended up being too short for my position in basketball.
Justin Tuck
#16. How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate
Brad Stevens
#17. I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.
Marianne Faithfull
#18. The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
Steven Weber
#19. Anger, pride and competence are our real enemies.
Dalai Lama
#20. Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth
Doc Rivers
#21. BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering.
Tim Wu
#22. In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
David Morse
#23. It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
Rick Pitino
#24. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable
Joe Dumars
#26. Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
Laini Taylor
#27. If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
Al McGuire
#28. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
Jay Bilas
#29. 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
#30. I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
Chuck Connors
#31. When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
Erik Weihenmayer
#32. He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.
Tim Baker
#33. Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno
#34. 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
#35. To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.
Jerome Frank
#36. A big market is something that doesn't really concern me too much. It's cool to think about, it's good for off-the-court deals. But I'm more of a basketball player. That's what I want to be known as. And this is the best place for me to play basketball. I'm glad I'm here.
Kevin Durant
#37. I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players
Chuck Daly
#38. If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.
Allison Tolman
#39. We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an automatic switch. If a blind pick is set on one of our defensive players, there has to be a switch. To play good pressure defense, you have to use the switch.
Ralph Miller
#40. In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
Abraham Verghese
#41. Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.
John Wooden
#42. 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
