Basketball Quotes

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

Dear Basketball, From the moment I started rolling my dad's tube socks and shooting imaginary game-winning shots ... I fell in love with you.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

Offense is not equal opportunity

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

Practice structure determines success.

We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

It's hard to win in the league, because every team is good, they got players on their team. A lot harder than high school. It's competitive, and that's what I most love about it.

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing.

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

Make friendship a fine art.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

I'm a big competitor.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that you don't have to do things like everybody else.

Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

It's so important to know where you are.

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

Compare where you are to where you want to be, and you'll get nowhere

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.

With that locker room I could sleep there after games.

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

But, hey I did everything the right way and earned my spot in this game, nothing was given to me.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Whatever it takes to win.

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Basketball also helps you learn to move your feet by playing defense and guarding guys, and that all carries over to playing football with staying square and having good footwork.