Quotes About Basketball Competition

#1. Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Larry Bird

#2. I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

Bill Rodgers

#3. Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

Keith Jarrett

#4. I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

Alonzo Mourning

#5. I began to study marijuana in 1967 ... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.

Lester Grinspoon

#6. I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

Dan Gilroy

#7. A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.

T. J. Stiles

#8. I'm not playing the race card. I'm playing the rice card.

Margaret Cho

#9. Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Rick Pitino

#10. Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

Tony La Russa

#11. To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward to helping USA Basketball regain its status in international basketball.

Jermaine O'Neal

#12. Basketball Rule #5
When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost.

Kwame Alexander

#13. A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

Ramon Rodriguez

#14. To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Seneca The Younger

#15. Alright. I'm over on the dark side. You'd better have the cookies I've been promised.

Danika Stone

#16. The best competition I have is against myself to become better

John Wooden

#17. Americans share an affinity to establish a distinctive identity and know one's self in a physiological, psychological, and spiritual sense, and we strive to attain self-actualization, self-realization, and/or bliss.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#18. It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

Pat Summitt

#19. I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

Richard Sherman

#20. I think I come from a theatrical tradition where, if you look at the great theatrical actors of the British theatre, they took enormous pride in being wildly different from one role to the next. That's the tradition I come from.

James Purefoy

#21. Collecting shoes is my biggest hobby. I've got a couple hundred pairs of Nikes and Jordans. I got a lot of hats, too. I like to play basketball, but nothing competition wise.

Chumlee

#22. The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

George Karl

#23. Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Maria Bamford

#24. In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arson's and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry.

Carl Panzram

#25. Winning does solve everything.

Joe Sakic

#26. I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

Kobe Bryant

#27. Kids are now eating things like edamame and sushi. I didn't know what shiitake mushrooms were when I was 10 - most kids today do.

Emeril Lagasse