Top 100 Quotes About Basketball Games
#1. Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
Adam Carolla
#2. That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski
#3. When people ask me now if I miss coaching UCLA basketball games, the national championships, the attention, the trophies, and everything that goes with them, I tell them this: I miss the practices.
John Wooden
#4. Physiologists, in fact, have calculated that rowing a two-thousand-meter race - the Olympic standard - takes the same physiological toll as playing two basketball games back-to-back. And it exacts that toll in about six minutes. A well-conditioned oarsman or oarswoman
Daniel James Brown
#6. Being in a wheelchair has made everyday things difficult. Things you wouldn't imagine. Like the looks I get at high school basketball games when they tell everyone to stand for the National Anthem.
Travis J. Dahnke
#7. I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.
Doug Harvey
#8. 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
#9. President Obama recently sat down with ESPN and said the NCAA should reduce the shot clock for basketball games. Then he said, 'And while we're at it, is there any way they can reduce the 'being president clock?'
Jimmy Fallon
#10. I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley
#11. I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
#12. If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow
Mike Krzyzewski
#13. I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.
Joss Whedon
#14. I've never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life.
Bobby Knight
#15. I started wearing glasses last season but they're only for basketball games and dirty movies.
Rick Majerus
#16. Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games
John Wooden
#17. You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense, so it was a double-whammy.
Gregg Popovich
#18. Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,
Ron Paul
#19. I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
Penny Marshall
#20. We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.
Bengie Molina
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.
Bill Simmons
#25. 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
#26. Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.
Pat Summitt
#27. The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#28. Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#29. 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
#30. If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan
#31. We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2
Marcus Camby
#32. The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
Yao Ming
#33. I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.
Dean Smith
#34. Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Ogden Nash
#35. This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.
Kay Yow
#36. Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.
Patrick Ewing
#37. It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.
Scottie Pippen
#38. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.
Lisa Leslie
#39. No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
Hubie Brown
#40. I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
Jonah Hill
#41. The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
Jay Bilas
#42. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.
LeBron James
#43. I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
Blake Griffin
#44. I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
John Wooden
#45. So, yeah, I'm going to try to win the national championship next year. But I'm not going to kill myself doing it. I'm not going to kill my players either. You really start to realize there's a lot more to what we're trying to do then winning games
Geno Auriemma
#46. You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness
Brad Stevens
#47. I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
Yao Ming
#48. I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.
Kobe Bryant
#49. I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
John Madden
#50. Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure.
Bob Sundvold
#51. In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.
Norm Sloan
#52. They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.
Erik Spoelstra
#53. I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.
Michael Jordan
#54. Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
Dean Smith
#55. I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.
Len Elmore
#56. It's part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or I get babied by the refs, that's just taking away from how I play. That's disrespectful to me.
Kevin Durant
#57. I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
Mike Krzyzewski
#58. Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.
LeBron James
#59. I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.
George Karl
#60. I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.
Terry Bradshaw
#61. I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.
Chuck Feeney
#62. Basketball isn't a game; It's an art form. You master the fundamentals so you can forget 'em, so you can improvise and just concentrate on what really matters: getting buckets.
Kyrie Irving
#63. It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!
Chris Bosh
#64. It always amazes me that spectators want to coach, coaches want to officiate, and officials just want to watch the game
Lou Holtz
#65. Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#66. These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.
Bob Cousy
#67. You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game
John Calipari
#68. It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.
Pat Riley
#69. I don't think people can watch University of Texas basketball or football games with me - really, anything Texas is playing - without wanting to punch me in the face. I'm as big a Longhorn fan as you'll find.
Jordan Spieth
#70. My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
Brad Stevens
#71. Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#72. To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.
Rick Majerus
#73. For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
Don Hutson
#74. I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.
Jeff Ament
#75. When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
Don Meyer
#76. I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.
Steven Chu
#77. I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
Jason Dohring
#78. I want to be one of the best players in the game.
Kevin Durant
#79. I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
Steve Nash
#80. I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.
Seimone Augustus
#81. We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.
Bob Cousy
#82. If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
Zeljko Obradovic
#83. If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.
Pat Summitt
#84. Coaches win practices, players win games
Pete Carril
#85. He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
Adolph Rupp
#86. Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.
LeBron James
#87. I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.
Lamar Odom
#88. I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game
Jack Ramsay
#89. I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.
Carmelo Anthony
#90. Basketball is just something else to do, another facet of life. I'm going to be a success at whatever I choose because of my preparation. By the time the game starts, the outcome has been decided. I never think about having a bad game because I have prepared.
David Robinson
#91. I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.
Heidi Klum
#92. Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
Don Meyer
#93. Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'
Paul Pierce
#94. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Red Auerbach
#95. With that locker room I could sleep there after games.
LeBron James
#96. I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys ... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.
Denny Crum
#97. I recruit hungry kids who love the game and want to get better and feel they have more questions than answers
Bo Ryan
#98. When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.
Max Charles
#99. I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
Dirk Nowitzki
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