Basketball Quotes

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

French was my first language.

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana.

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

I don't intend to retire.

Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.

There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem

Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

I don't think there could ever be more pressure to succeed than the pressure I place on myself.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

I can't palm a basketball.

I think everybody has their own unique style.

I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad.

I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that.

I have my own identity as a player.

I know there's a lot of pressure, but I'm just going to go out and play my game.

It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.

I think I am a smarter player now.

I think I'll always want to improve my defense. That's something that can always be better. Not saying it's bad now, just something you should always work on.

I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

I just like to win basketball games. That's what motivates me.

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time.

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.

Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

I got pulled over when I was behind the wheel of a Porsche in Philly once for what we call DWB - Driving While Black.

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.

In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.