Quotes About Basketball Fans

#1. Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Bob Cousy

#2. If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

Kim Kardashian

#3. Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.

Shaquille O'Neal

#4. You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base because as we all know the majority of the fans are white America. And if you just had a couple of white guys in there, you might get them a little excited.

Larry Bird

#5. Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

George Raveling

#6. They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

Raymond Floyd

#7. It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Tilda Swinton

#8. I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

Stan Lee

#9. I knew we were not alone, but there was something in the air, something good and pure that reassured me. It's a beautiful energy, and has been with me ever since.

Caroline Mitchell

#10. My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

Chris Hardwick

#11. I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#12. Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

Bobby Simmons

#13. I love Oklahoma. The fans have been with me every night. What more can you ask for?

Kevin Durant

#14. As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

Bobby Knight

#15. He was just so gorgeous, erotic, and intimidating at the same time, she said, grinning.

Beth Bares

#16. You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

Magic Johnson

#17. Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

Jim Larranaga

#18. I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things ... I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#19. It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.

Allen Iverson

#20. I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

Bill Walton

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

Larry Bird

#22. Be your own motivation.

Jon Jones

#23. Tell me what trying to reconcile with someone who isn't sorry would even look like!"

He paused, then said simply, "It would look like Jesus on the cross.

Jeanne Bishop

#24. The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#25. The Miami Heat has the best fans.

Shaquille O'Neal

#26. If Indians were not largehearted, they wouldn't have made so much of progress and delivered growth.

Harbhajan Singh

#27. I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.

Bill Laimbeer

#28. People talk of their motives in a cut and dried way. Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. I am not a monster but I have not felt exactly what other women feel, or say they feel, for fear of being thought unlike others.

George Eliot

#29. 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