Top 100 Quotes About Basketball
#1. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
LeBron James
#2. That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.
Seimone Augustus
#3. THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities
Carl Paladino
#4. I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
Allen Iverson
#5. There has never been a great 'silent' defense
Del Harris
#6. 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
#7. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen
#8. What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play ... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Charles Barkley
#9. I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.
Steve Nash
#10. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
#11. Do your best when no one is looking.
Bob Cousy
#14. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#15. There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
Allen Iverson
#16. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#17. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
Paul Walker
#18. I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
Shaquille O'Neal
#19. I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.
Shaquille O'Neal
#20. My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
Al McGuire
#21. I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
Yani Tseng
#22. If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.
Shaquille O'Neal
#23. The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
Dennis Rodman
#24. Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
Al McGuire
#25. If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Alonzo Mourning
#26. You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
Charles Barkley
#27. He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.
Stephen Curry
#29. If you only ever like people you don't know and who don't know you, the ball is perpetually in their court. Only they don't realize that you think they're playing basketball with you. They are not actually at the court. You think you're there. But really you're not there, either.
Katie Heaney
#30. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
#31. Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.
Mehmet Okur
#32. I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.
Cristela Alonzo
#33. I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
Chamique Holdsclaw
#34. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
Charles Barkley
#35. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#36. D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.
LeBron James
#38. I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything
LeBron James
#39. I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.
John Chaney
#40. Imagine Michael Jackson trying to play basketball or Michael Jordan trying to become a musician. They might not have been so successful if they would have chosen to do so. Regardless
Harshajyoti Das
#41. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#42. I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.
Andy Murray
#43. To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.
Yao Ming
#44. Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.
John Kundla
#45. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Grace Jones
#46. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.
Mike Krzyzewski
#47. Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
Bobby Knight
#48. The man above has given me some unbelievable abilities to play the game of basketball. I just try to take advantage of it every night. I got the trust of my teammates and my coaching staff to go in there and let it go.
LeBron James
#49. I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.
Robert Griffin III
#50. Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.
Shaquille O'Neal
#51. 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
#52. The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#53. Champions behave like champions before they are champions
Bill Walsh
#55. The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
Al McGuire
#56. The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
Woody Hayes
#57. Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
Leon Wood
#58. I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three (shooting guard-small forward) spot. If he could've been a pure shooter, great. But if not, we still needed somebody to give us minutes there. I like the guys we've got.
Joe Dumars
#59. I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships ... We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
Lauren Jackson
#60. I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
Warren Moon
#61. We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us - anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
Bill Russell
#62. You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.
Mike D'Antoni
#63. Praise behaviour that you want repeated
Dean Smith
#64. Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us
Kenyon Martin
#65. [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.
Vince Kehres
#66. I don't know. I don't have a fax machine, so I didn't get that message.
Shaquille O'Neal
#67. Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.
Kevin Durant
#68. Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
Bill Foster
#69. I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
Charles Barkley
#70. Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.
Shaquille O'Neal
#71. You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.
Mike Krzyzewski
#72. I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
Mia Hamm
#73. Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character.
Woody Hayes
#74. She understood about the comfort you can get from a small separate world, whether it's a theatre or a basketball team or the inside of a book.
Susan Cooper
#75. Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Thomas Perez
#76. You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
#77. Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.
Charles Barkley
#78. As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
Kobe Bryant
#79. I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.
Danny Pudi
#80. I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that.
Carmelo Anthony
#81. Working hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great
Thad Matta
#82. Word has it, they think I'm an old man, and they're not gonna double me. My message is that I'm the baddest for my age bracketest. What I mean by age bracketest is that I came in at 20, I was the baddest 20, and I'm the baddest at 35.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
Terry McMillan
#84. The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.
Kobe Bryant
#85. I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
Hannah Storm
#86. I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.
LeBron James
#87. Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.
Matt Emmons
#88. But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
Bill Simmons
#89. I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
Oscar Robertson
#90. I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.
Kobe Bryant
#91. In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton
#93. We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.
Shaquille O'Neal
#94. We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden
#95. Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
Don Meyer
#96. You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.
Jeremy Lin
#97. Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that
Tom Izzo
#98. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards
Fred Hoiberg
#99. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
R. Kelly
#100. There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
Don Meyer
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