Top 100 Quotes About Nba
#1. It is time for everyone to sit down - the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity - and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
Dick Vitale
#2. Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go ... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.
Cassie Ventura
#3. When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
Derrick Rose
#4. I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the NBA as I was maybe 10 or 15 years ago, or certainly as I was when I was a player. It's become more entertainment focused, and less focused on the purity of the game.
Len Elmore
#5. I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Shaquille O'Neal
#6. When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.
Doug Collins
#7. The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.
Mike Thibault
#8. NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.
Sonny Vaccaro
#9. You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.
Dwight Howard
#10. I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.
Shaquille O'Neal
#11. I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.
Chris Bosh
#12. I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.
Marcus Camby
#13. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.
Mark Cuban
#14. This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
Oscar Robertson
#15. This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.
Carl Crawford
#16. Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.
Hubie Brown
#17. For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.
Ron Wyden
#18. I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.
Chris Paul
#19. I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.
Ray Allen
#20. When the effort is in question, the ball goes in different directions and the ball doesn't always bounce your way. When you're playing in the home of the NBA champions, it isn't going to be easy.
Ray Allen
#21. The most underrated player in NBA history is Dominique Wilkins. Right behind him is Gary Payton. He never has gotten the respect he deserves. If he doesn't spend the rest of his days in Seattle, I hope he goes someplace where he has a chance to win a title.
Charles Barkley
#22. I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.
Ryan Montgomery
#23. If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.
Antonio Davis
#24. In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#25. I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
Allen Iverson
#26. It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
David Stern
#27. One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.
Eli Manning
#28. Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
Edward De Bono
#29. We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
Manu Ginobili
#30. If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
Bobby Knight
#31. The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.
Derrick Rose
#32. My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
James Harden
#33. I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
Candace Parker
#34. I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
Magic Johnson
#35. In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.
Samantha Power
#36. Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
Bill Walton
#37. Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.
Dennis Rodman
#38. Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.
Will Smith
#39. I was never supposed to play in college, let alone the NBA, so I always feel like I have something to prove. No one ever expected me to be here, so that feeling of being an underdog is ingrained in me. It's a natural part of my consciousness.
Steve Nash
#40. The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.
Dwight Howard
#41. Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, ... Driven From Within.
Michael Jordan
#42. It wasn't a mistake to come out of college early. It was the best move I ever made. I had one year to practice and learn the NBA game. It was like a redshirt year.
Michael Redd
#43. I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
Terrell Owens
#45. We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
David Stern
#46. I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'
Kevin Durant
#47. Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.
Jeremy Lin
#48. It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
Larry Bird
#49. I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'
Blake Griffin
#50. The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron James
#51. One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.
Mark Cuban
#52. I remember when I came into the NBA, eighteen years ago, there were maybe nine to twelve international players playing in the NBA. Today we've got more than 85, so that tells you how our game has grown at that level.
Dikembe Mutombo
#54. I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.
Julius Peppers
#55. I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].
Jermaine O'Neal
#56. After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my rookie year, I went to the league and talked about this, and they embraced my idea and started conducting basketball clinics in Africa, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be the last African.
Dikembe Mutombo
#57. A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd
#58. I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our tribal roots.
John Mackey
#59. When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.
Jose Andres
#60. Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.
Sonny Vaccaro
#61. Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.
David Stern
#62. After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
Dikembe Mutombo
#63. I thought I was going to the NBA, but God knows, I'm not tall enough. I don't know what I was thinking.
Tequan Richmond
#64. I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.
Henry Zebrowski
#65. Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
Mark Cuban
#66. I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team.
When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.
Doc Rivers
#67. We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.
Adam Silver
#68. So you wake up this morning and find you're president of the United States. Pretty cool, no? Helicopters and a 747 at your disposal; courtside seats at any NBA playoff game of your choice; everyone stands up and the band plays when you come into the room.
Jeff Greenfield
#69. The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.
Dikembe Mutombo
#70. The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
Grant Hill
#71. I am always playing hard trying to win. Just knowing that at one time I was once that kid that looked up to NBA players and NFL players. Today these kids look up me.
Jason Terry
#72. Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
Bill Walton
#73. I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.
Darryl Dawkins
#74. We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
David Blatt
#75. My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.
Dante Hall
#76. A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.
Josh Howard
#77. I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.
Eric Snow
#78. The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#79. I am always amazed at how many guys in the NBA have never met an owner much less ever been to an owner's house. We bought the team so that we would be able to be a positive force, so that they in turn would be a positive force to young people everywhere.
Richard DeVos
#80. Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points.
Or as Hillary Clinton would say, Too close to call.
Craig Ferguson
#81. The Honda Center is a wonderful arena. And it's a great arena, not only for the NHL, but it would be a great arena for an NBA team.
Henry Samueli
#82. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.
Manu Ginobili
#83. I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
Kevin Johnson
#84. I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
Tony Parker
#85. The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
Dwyane Wade
#86. I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.
John Starks
#87. There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner
Ted Leonsis
#88. Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.
Charles Barkley
#89. Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.
Oscar Robertson
#90. Fifa, Star Wars, Need for Speed, NBA, Ratchet and Clank. Of
Kate Cullen
#91. Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.
Michael Jordan
#92. This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA.
Kevin Garnett
#93. I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
Mike Tirico
#94. Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
Bill Walton
#95. I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking at my options and considering going overseas.
Paul Pierce
#96. Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.
Paul Pierce
#97. An NBA game in L.A., the Lakers - I'm a Clipper fan - it's to be seen as much as seeing the game.
Larry King
#98. I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.
Terry Porter
#99. You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
Dean Kamen
#100. When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.
Dwyane Wade
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