Nba Basketball Player Quotes

#1. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

Jason Kidd

#2. I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

Henry Zebrowski

#3. 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

#4. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

#5. I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars to be safe.

Akio Toyoda

#6. When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

Dwyane Wade

#7. I don't like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don't know anything about.

Paris Hilton

#8. He smiled mysteriously. Adults are so good at smiling mysteriously. Do they go to college for that?

Sherman Alexie

#9. It had been better to have viewed him from a distance, so that his flaws were left unseen.

Alice Hoffman

#10. The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

William Gilbert

#11. After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.

Dikembe Mutombo

#12. If you want to save America, get America saved.

Lester Roloff

#13. The trouble with the world and the trouble with you and me is that we don't love each other enough. And if we do, we don't bother to show it, or we don't bother to say it. If the world is to know love, it has to be in your heart and in mine.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#14. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

Oswald Chambers

#15. One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Mark Cuban

#16. I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

Marcus Camby

#17. I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

Shaquille O'Neal

#18. Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

Bill Walton

#19. I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

Mary Tyler Moore

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

Dwyane Wade

#23. The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

Kobe Bryant

#24. Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Doug Collins

#25. So you're dealing with a coach, and you're dealing with a guy who's actually experienced NBA basketball from a player's perspective and actually goes about it that way.

Kevin Garnett

#26. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

#27. The Universe is either expressing a miracle or is pregnant with the next one.

Marianne Williamson

#28. If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

Kevin Durant

#29. Marijuana, for example, won't help one determine the correct aspect ratio ...

David Mamet

#30. Do your best when no one is looking.

Bob Cousy