Basketball Quotes

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand.

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

Make friendship a fine art.

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

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.

It's so important to know where you are.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

I want to be a champion.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Drink deeply from good books.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

I want to be one of the best players in the game.

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I'm not going to disappear.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.

I don't have to hear that criticism, that idotic criticism anymore.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.