Basketball Quotes
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.
Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.
Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
People wouldn't think of making avant-garde cuisine at home. When people play basketball at home, they can't play like Michael Jordan.
It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team.
I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.
Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.
I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
As coaches we talk about two things: offense and defense. There is a third phase we neglect, which is more important. It's conversion from offense to defense and defense to offense.
Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
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.
(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.
My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.
I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'