Pro Basketball Quotes

#1. I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

Larry Bird

#2. Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

Rick Majerus

#3. 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

#4. Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.

Craig Ferguson

#5. If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Paul Westhead

#6. I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

Jackson Brundage

#7. The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

Stu Jackson

#8. Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

Brian McKnight

#9. Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

Dan Jenkins

#10. Peace that transcends all understanding is contentment in uncertainty. el

Evinda Lepins

#11. Radical Edwards's profile? He's a seven-foot tall ex-basketball pro hindu guru drag-queen alien.
-Jet Black, from the Cowboy Bebop anime script

Keiko Nobumoto

#12. For the lifter pursuing fitness and health and perhaps fat loss, here is the general outline of your programming: lift as heavy as possible, as frequently as possible, as fresh as possible, as linked as possible.

Sean Schniederjan

#13. It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Sarah Ferguson

#14. When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

Larry Bird

#15. To love human beauty is to love something whose very existence is doomed. Love should be based on permanence. On solid, secure things ... Love of God. Love of good deeds. Love of country and family. Love of ideas.

Naomi Ragen

#16. If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

Pema Chodron

#17. In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.

Michael Jordan

#18. I've won at every level, except college and pro.

Shaquille O'Neal

#19. You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

Dick Ebersol

#20. One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.

Sonny Vaccaro

#21. It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking God for giving you elbows and knees, giving you ribs and the glandular system, giving you head and skull and brain.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi