Quotes About Great Basketball Players

#1. I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Magic Johnson

#2. You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

Tom Thibodeau

#3. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Pat Riley

#4. Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all.

Marc Ashton

#5. Teenage boys fall in love with girls who have blond hair and blue eyes. Basketball coaches fall in love with players who have a cerebral court sense and a great jump shot.

John Feinstein

#6. The Republican presidential candidate [Donald Trump] provoked condemnation from leaders in both parties and around the world. He did that by proposing to bar all Muslims from entering the United States.

Steve Inskeep

#7. Good players want to be coached ... Great players want to be told the truth

Doc Rivers

#8. Death is not an means to an end but the beginning of life with God

Jennifer Hoover

#9. Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Nicolas Cage

#10. It's fair to say that Jews dominated basketball and that started in the 30s in all the big cities. I think it was simply because Jews lived in ghettoes and basketball is a great schoolyard game. You don't need a lot of space or equipment and you can adapt it to how many players you have.

Dolph Schayes

#11. Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

Robert Browning

#12. Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Samuel Richardson

#13. Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

Michael Jordan

#14. The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

Jerry Tarkanian

#15. Never mind our plan," Khione snarled. "Kill her!" As the Boreads raised their swords,

Rick Riordan

#16. It's going to be great. A lot of the players are coming. I wasn't here when they put (Jackson) up in the rafters. But to have him here as my number goes up, it brings back a lot of great memories.

Scottie Pippen

#17. People will think there are no other great ballplayers. Look at Garnett. Look at Duncan, Shaq, Kobe. Look at the players with Sacramento. The have a really good basketball team.

Oscar Robertson

#18. The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Benjamin Cardozo

#19. Out the back window. And get

Craig Johnson

#20. For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by veterans. We had a great battle last Thursday at HealthPoint. It was something I never had before - three, four, really great players all in one pickup game.

Shaquille O'Neal

#21. Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

Michael Douglas

#22. For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.

Ben Stein

#23. Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

John Wooden

#24. On good teams coaches hold players accountable, on great teams players hold players accountable

Joe Dumars

#25. Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.

Julius Bate

#26. Discipline is the greatest form of love you can show someone. Great players crave discipline

Tom Izzo

#27. The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates

Jay Bilas

#28. Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jerry West

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

Kobe Bryant