Basketball Quotes

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship

College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge.

Basketball, and the people I have met through the game have far and away had the largest impact on my life. Almost every positive role model I have ever had was a coach, mentor, or teammate.

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person I am today.

Basketball has taught me that no matter how unlikely something is, if you set a goal, and follow after that goal with all your heart, anything is possible.

I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.

This has been a dream for me.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

It seemed like we were losing every night for a different reason. Now we're winning a different way every time. It's a great feeling.

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.