Top 32 U Of A Basketball Quotes
#1. I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
Shaquille O'Neal
#3. 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
#4. Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.
Mehmet Okur
#5. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.
Johnny Weir
#6. If you only ever like people you don't know and who don't know you, the ball is perpetually in their court. Only they don't realize that you think they're playing basketball with you. They are not actually at the court. You think you're there. But really you're not there, either.
Katie Heaney
#8. He credited his teammates, who he thanked in turn, with challenging him every day and driving him forward and making him a better player.
Stephen Curry
#9. You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.
Charles Barkley
#10. If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.
Alonzo Mourning
#11. Live every day as if it were Saturday night.
Al McGuire
#12. The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.
Dennis Rodman
#13. If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.
Shaquille O'Neal
#14. I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
Yani Tseng
#15. My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
Al McGuire
#16. I just want everyone to know I'm suing Ruben Studdard. He had his hand on my ass and he wouldn't let go.
Shaquille O'Neal
#17. You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
LeBron James
#18. I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.
Paul Walker
#19. Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
#20. There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
Allen Iverson
#21. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#24. Do your best when no one is looking.
Bob Cousy
#25. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
#26. I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.
Steve Nash
#27. What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play ... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Charles Barkley
#28. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Scottie Pippen
#29. If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#30. There has never been a great 'silent' defense
Del Harris
#31. I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
Allen Iverson
#32. THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities
Carl Paladino
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