Top 24 Happy Basketball Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Happy Basketball

#1. While I was in the NFL, I would eat five times a day. I only eat twice a day now, and I box and play basketball every day. I'm extremely happy with my body and mind.

Thomas Jones

#2. To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

Norm Sloan

#3. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

Mike McConathy

#4. If we win, I'm happy. The rest of it is just stuff.

Tim Duncan

#5. I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

LeBron James

#6. Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

Don Meyer

#7. We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy

Tom Izzo

#8. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Shimon Peres

#9. 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

#10. Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

John Wooden

#11. I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

Lewis Black

#12. We're the most experienced team in the league. I think we got a little too happy, running our mouths, jumping up and down, looking at the Heat dancers and all of that stuff. We had to step it up and show them what we're all about.

Shaquille O'Neal

#13. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

John Wooden

#15. You have to be able to separate business from the love of the game. There were a lot of decisions made business-wise that I wasn't happy with, and I took a lot of blame over the years. But you have to be able to separate that from the love you have for the game.

Kobe Bryant

#16. 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

#17. Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

Dean Smith

#18. Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Blake Griffin

#19. I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked all those years to own that house and he cried. He was so excited and so happy and I want to see other people get that feeling, too.

Magic Johnson