Quotes About The History Of Basketball

#1. We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.

Bill Walton

#2. I played when I played, and played, I think, against the greatest players in the greatest time in the history of basketball.

Oscar Robertson

#3. I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy ... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

Zach Braff

#4. Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

Mark E. Hyman

#5. He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'

Tom Heinsohn

#6. John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Bill Walton

#7. No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

Bill Walton

#8. I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school.

Lou Holtz

#9. I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Bill Walton

#10. Her scream echoed through my soul, and at that moment, I knew I had one. Human or not, it rocked me to my very core.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#12. It feels good to be a part of history.

Kevin Durant

#13. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

Shimon Peres

#14. I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

Oscar Robertson

#15. I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Bill Russell

#16. On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

Nancy Gibbs

#17. I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

William Shatner

#18. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;

Red Auerbach

#19. I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking ... You need to clear your brain.

Ildar Abdrazakov

#20. You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

LeBron James