Quotes About Basketball And Friends

#1. I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing to worry about.

LeBron James

#2. My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.

Derrick Rose

#3. Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything.

Yao Ming

#4. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As

Mortimer J. Adler

#5. The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.

Auguste Rodin

#6. I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

Alison Sweeney

#7. I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

Marc Faber

#8. There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky.

Paula McLain

#9. 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

#10. I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, 'second breakfast,' or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can't get to.

Jess Walter

#11. I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

Kenyon Martin

#12. I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

Charles Barkley

#13. It gave me a shock. A sudden shock of indescribable pain, like when you're a kid, and you're hit on the nose with a basketball on a cold morning, and you cannot believe how much it hurts, and your friends all laugh and you want your mother so bad.

Liane Moriarty

#14. I want to mirror your image in its fullest perfection. Never be blind or too old to uphold your weighty wavering reflection

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.

Jerry Tarkanian

#16. As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.

Seth Berkley

#17. The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

Bill Russell

#18. I like the first-person games, but I like the two-person element in terms of playing basketball games with my friends. That's a good time; we have tournaments and things.

Kevin Weisman

#19. The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

Kimberly Derting

#20. I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

Rob Gronkowski

#21. A strategy is a combination of an origin, a destination, and a route to get from origin to destination.

Pearl Zhu

#22. My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.

Steve Nash

#23. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

John Wooden

#24. My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Steve Nash

#25. It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

Thomas Troward

#26. Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

LeBron James