Basketball player Quotes · Page 5

Don't ever underestimate Bill Russell as a basketball player.

— John Havlicek

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

— Jim Caviezel

Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.

— Jae Crowder

I'm a basketball player. I'm going to compete every night, play some good ball and get better.

— Robin Lopez

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

— Michael Jordan

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

— Jimmer Fredette

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

— Larry Bird

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Kobe taught people how to work hard, he taught you how to work hard. He gave you the blueprint of what you…

— Patrick Beverley

College was a very necessary step along the way to my professional career. As I look back, I realize how much of…

— Scottie Pippen

I'm just a basketball player. Regardless of the situation, I'm going to continue to work hard and play my game.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball…

— Kobe Bryant

It doesn't have to take a Portland Trail Blazer or a professional basketball player to do good things in the community. You…

— Rasheed Wallace

I try to envision what life is after basketball, but I just see myself working out and just being a basketball player…

— Diana Taurasi

I've been a basketball player for a very long time and I've always watched the game... I love the game of basketball,…

— Kelly Oubre, Jr

I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I…

— John Wooden

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those…

— Tony Gonzalez

I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they…

— LaDainian Tomlinson

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier…

— Zaza Pachulia

Playing against the older dudes really benefited me, just because where I came from, I'd always been the best player in the…

— Tyrese Haliburton

I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all…

— Chris Solinsky

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

It's funny because I think everybody when they see me, the first thing they say is, 'Man, you could have been a…

— Jay Williams

I only had two scholarship offers with Tennessee State being one of them. That put a lot on my shoulders - not…

— Robert Covington

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

— Oscar Robertson

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

— Andre Iguodala

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

— Boi-1da

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

— Don Meyer

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

— Harrison Barnes

I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

— Jabari Parker

People see Michael Jordan as a great basketball player, but he's a great businessman, too.

— Harrison Barnes

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

— Jim Valvano

I just want to compete with the best basketball players. And I think I can compete.

— Juancho Hernangomez

I guess I was a decent basketball player - pass first, pass second, shoot third... pretty good defensively.

— Tom Izzo

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

— David Duchovny

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

— Terrell Owens

You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

— Jeremy Lin

I'm an old-school basketball player and an old-school coach.

— Mark Jackson

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

— Becky Hammon

People forget that I'm human, that I have emotions. They just see me as a basketball player.

— A'ja Wilson