Top 100 Quotes About The Nba
#1. The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.
John Salley
#2. It means I don't have to charter that big jet for the family.
Shaquille O'Neal
#3. I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.
Dwight Howard
#4. 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
#5. I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
Stephen Curry
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
Coby Bell
#16. 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
#17. The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.
Steve Nash
#18. It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.
Shaquille O'Neal
#19. Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice.
Cam Newton
#20. I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.
Tony Parker
#21. The public's got it right, a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.
Andrew Bogut
#22. There's a reason why the Super Bowl is watched way more than the NBA Finals and World Series.
A.D. Aliwat
#23. It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
Dikembe Mutombo
#24. I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.
Dikembe Mutombo
#26. The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.
Cam Newton
#27. My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.
Dwyane Wade
#28. I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.
Shaquille O'Neal
#29. I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the NBA from Africa, I felt I had to do my best to recruit more young Africans to come and play in the NBA - and also find a way to bring the NBA to Africa.
Dikembe Mutombo
#30. I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.
Michael Heisley
#31. If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA.
Gary Dornhoefer
#32. I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
Shaquille O'Neal
#33. I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade
#34. If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.
Shaquille O'Neal
#35. Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there aren't very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.
Tom Heinsohn
#37. The way he was playing, he probably could have scored on Jesus.
Mo Williams
#38. When I played in the NBA for 12 years, Seattle had some of the best fans in the NBA.
Kevin Johnson
#39. This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?
Gilbert Arenas
#40. They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.
LeBron James
#41. Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.
Tony Gonzalez
#42. I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
Shaquille O'Neal
#43. It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it.
Shaquille O'Neal
#44. In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.
Nate Robinson
#45. I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.
Kobe Bryant
#46. The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.
Mark Cuban
#47. Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
Bill Walton
#48. I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.
Steve Blake
#49. I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Magic Johnson
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. Obviously, Sam is the type of guy that hides behind his pen and pad. I promise you he wouldn't say that to my face in a dark alley where it's just me and him and no witnesses.
Shaquille O'Neal
#55. I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.
Chris Bosh
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#60. 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
#61. It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.
Erik Spoelstra
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].
Jermaine O'Neal
#66. 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
#67. You do not want to make this guy mad. You see him sitting there all cool and calm, but underneath, he's thinking, he's plotting. I'm telling you, it's not normal. He's like Michael from 'The Godfather.' - Kevin Johnson on David Stern
R.E. Graswich
#68. Obviously I'm not getting much sleep. You guys can see I'm not getting much sleep right now, but I'm OK with that. I'm OK with not sleeping to be able to prepare myself and mentally keep myself intact on what's the main objective for me right now.
LeBron James
#69. 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
#70. We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.
David Blatt
#71. 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
#72. I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
Allen Iverson
#73. You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and stay there.' To see people cheering for me and when they say my name, it's just crazy. It's still crazy to me.
Kevin Durant
#74. Not even thinking about anything. My mind is a blank. We just want to enjoy the moment.
Andre Iguodala
#75. I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.
Doug Collins
#76. I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.
Stephen Curry
#77. If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.
Chris Webber
#78. I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.
Carmelo Anthony
#79. Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.
Earl Monroe
#80. Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage.
Tom Brokaw
#81. You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
Shaquille O'Neal
#82. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?
Shaquille O'Neal
#83. I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.
LeBron James
#84. I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
Mike Tirico
#85. Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.
Dolph Schayes
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.
Kevin Johnson
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.
Red Auerbach
#95. We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.
LeBron James
#96. Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life.
Kevin Durant
#97. I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert
#98. Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.
Mario Chalmers
#99. The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.
Mel Daniels
#100. Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit ... he has it all.
Bill Walton
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