Basketball Quotes

I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was.

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

My dream has become a reality now, and it's the best feeling I've ever had.

It's a humbling experience for me to be in this position.

You can't let nobody run your train.

D-Wade is the unselfish guy here-he is welcoming Chris Bosh and LeBron James to his team.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

I love seeing my teammates succeed. That's what I get more excited about than anything

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area - in a perfect world I would have loved to stay.

I'm not promising a championship. I know how hard that is to deliver. We're not ready right now.

If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

No place is better than Akron.

They continue to criticize me for my outside shooting, but I continue to make outside shots.

I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

I've put our guys in position. I gave them the blueprint. I think they're ready.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

Working with all of these kids is great. It doesn't get any better than this, to come down and inspire kids who want to play the game of basketball and put smiles on their faces.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

We want to win it all. The only reason we play this game is to win championships.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

I hope I can help guys coming out of high school, if they need advice. I know the ins and outs of everything.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension.

A team can't work when a guy puts himself in front of a team. I have yet to be on a team like that.

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

I don't let individual statistics make me a focus or more of a focus. I just tried to come out and attack early and get a big lead. We were able to take it in overtime and win.

I never thought basketball was going to be my future. I just wanted to play because it gets you girls.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

I've always been taught that basketball is a team game and greater than the sum of its parts.

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

On his telepathic understanding with James Worthy- It's almost like we have ESPN.