Basketball Quotes

Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball.

Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.

My life is bigger than basketball.

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.

I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

I either run or try to play basketball every day.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most fun to watch.

I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do.

I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

I love being outside and feeling free, so I jog or ride my bike. Some days I play basketball or tennis.

In college you learn about college

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

We don't give 'em no respect..none!

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.

We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.