Top 100 Quotes About Nba
#1. (Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.
Doc Rivers
#2. Do your best when no one is looking.
Bob Cousy
#3. Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league.
Doug Collins
#4. I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.
Metta World Peace
#5. Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.
Frank Caliendo
#6. I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
Larry Bird
#7. People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
Oscar Robertson
#8. Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.
Dwyane Wade
#9. I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.
Tracy McGrady
#10. We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room
David Blatt
#11. During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.
Terry Porter
#12. My family is happy. That makes my job a lot easier. For the fans, I try to put it all out there on the floor.
LeBron James
#13. If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
Julius Erving
#14. I knew I wasn't going to play for the NBA.
Tim Howard
#15. I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin
#16. There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.
Scott Brooks
#17. The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.
John Salley
#18. I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.
Udonis Haslem
#19. NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year
Arn Tellem
#20. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
Shaquille O'Neal
#21. I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.
Dwight Howard
#22. I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey.
Charles Barkley
#23. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
John Wooden
#24. It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#25. I was hoping to get to the NBA, but the Lord took me on a different path.
Robbie Jones
#26. About strip clubs and athletes. The best way I can explain why a lot of players end up there is because it's one of the safest places a high-profile person can spend time in a boring city.
Shaquille O'Neal
#27. In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.
Tony Parker
#29. I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
Bob Cousy
#31. Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
Jeremy Lin
#32. I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.
LeBron James
#33. The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
Andrew Bogut
#34. When I was small, playing NBA Live, that's how I knew everyone in the NBA. That's how I learned about the players.
Tony Parker
#35. Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
Pat Williams
#36. I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.
LeBron James
#37. Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.
Brandon Jennings
#38. I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#39. Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.
Will McDonough
#40. Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.
Carmelo Anthony
#41. If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.
Kevin Durant
#42. I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.
Michael Redd
#43. You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality.
Chandler Parsons
#44. But then I lock back in and I start thinking about how fun it is to compete during the playoffs and the first round, the second round, and Eastern Conference Finals. If I'm lucky enough to get here again, it will be fun to do it.
LeBron James
#45. My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!
Nolan North
#46. I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson
#47. 'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!
Andre Iguodala
#48. I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.
LeBron James
#49. In the NBA you need a little bit more than that when Jordan is front of you. You need a little bit more than that when it is Barkley or Karl Malone or Shaq or whoever else. You need a lot more than that frankly if you're the English kid who can't jump.
John Amaechi
#50. You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
Chris Rock
#51. It's his show and I'm just trying to make him look good. If we were the same age there might be a little tension, but I'm on my way out ... I am here to serve your every need, King James.
Shaquille O'Neal
#52. Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.
Charles Barkley
#53. To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.
LeBron James
#54. There's Brandon Jennings. The NBA told him to go to college for a year, and he said, "Screw that. I'll go to Europe and make a million bucks and then come back." And he's proven to be a pretty damn good player. He's done as much for the game as Michael [Jordan] by forging a different route.
Sonny Vaccaro
#55. I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.
Shaquille O'Neal
#57. If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had
LeBron James
#59. I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?
George Karl
#60. All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
Stephen Curry
#61. We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.
LeBron James
#62. We did what we are supposed to. We protected home. We have to try to do it again Thursday night.
LeBron James
#63. Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.
Jay Leno
#64. I want to go get a stop on defense so James can do it again. It was a big spurt for him. That made then get out of their game plan and play him closer. But when he does that, we want to make sure we capitalize and get timely stops. And that's what got us right back in the game.
Chris Bosh
#65. When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn't really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.
Dirk Nowitzki
#66. For them to have the season that they had, for them to have us on the ropes ... Congrats to the Cavs.
Steve Kerr
#67. I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
Magic Johnson
#69. The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Larry Bird
#70. I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.
Allen Iverson
#71. I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.
LeBron James
#72. It takes a number of critical factors to win an NBA championship, including the right mix of talent, creativity, intelligence, toughness, and of course, luck. But if a team doesn't have the most essential ingredient - love - none of those other factors matter.
Phil Jackson
#73. If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.
Art Rust Jr.
#74. I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities.
Darryl Dawkins
#75. I never had a doubt that I would make it to the NBA, even when I wasn't playing.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#76. Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.
Marv Albert
#78. I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it.
Antonio Davis
#79. I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
Blake Griffin
#81. I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
Tim Duncan
#82. I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. This city, All they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men, And you still love us. And I thank you so much for embracing us.
Kevin Durant
#84. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
John Wooden
#85. Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cause you were too close, kissing his!
Charles Barkley
#86. Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.
Magic Johnson
#87. What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.
Pat Williams
#88. Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.
Kyrie Irving
#89. I've never found NBA owners to be deferential. I never considered them to be reliant. All that I do is knock myself out to represent their interests the best way I can and sometimes tell them, as part of my job, what they don't like to hear.
David Stern
#90. I got a goal, and it's a huge goal, and that's to bring an NBA championship here to Cleveland, and I won't stop until I get it.
LeBron James
#91. What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.
Andrew Bogut
#92. My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.
Goran Ivanisevic
#93. We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.
LeBron James
#94. As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
Chris Bohjalian
#95. My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some list. I guess Jennifer Garner is on the top of the list for best hands and I'm fourth down. But that's for people who really like an NBA star's hands.
Eliza Coupe
#96. I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
Coby Bell
#97. Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.
Channing Tatum
#98. Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.
Charles Barkley
#99. I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.
Shaquille O'Neal
#100. Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.
Woody Allen
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