Life Is Like Basketball Quotes

#1. I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

Jim Valvano

#2. Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

LeBron James

#3. My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

Chris Brown

#4. Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#6. Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.

Steven E. Landsburg

#7. Reinforce positive energy.

Keith Grafman

#8. First off, I'd like to thank God for changing my life. He let me really realize what life is all about. Basketball is just a platform, In order for me to inspire people. And I realize that.

Kevin Durant

#9. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.

Martin Page

#10. Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.

David Dunham

#11. Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.

Phil Jackson

#12. I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

Dennis Rodman

#13. My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

Kevin Durant

#14. My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Pete Maravich

#15. I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.

Barkhad Abdi

#16. God is more interested in developing your character than keeping you comfortable.

Tommy Tenney

#17. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...

Muse

#18. Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

Lincoln Steffens

#19. My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#20. Buddhism is really, one of its main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Goldie Hawn

#21. Just as a beautiful woman demanded attention by virtue of her face and figure, Breeze drew it by near unconscious use of his powers.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

Michael Crichton

#23. Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

Dana Bash

#24. Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

Mason Cooley

#25. Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.

John Madden

#27. Seek awaken of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. No matter what ... ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

Walter Dean Myers

#29. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline

Phil Gramm

#30. Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

Lionel Shriver

#31. And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin.

Voltaire

#32. Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.

Kobe Bryant