Basketball Quotes · Page 44

It's cool to be a pioneer in something, especially in basketball in Canada, it's pretty good.

— Jamal Murray

Basketball is more than our family business; it's our family passion.

— Tobias Harris

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

— Charles Barkley

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

— Bob Cousy

We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

— Allen Iverson

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

— Dean Smith

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it…

— Kevin Durant

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

— Kay Cannon

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball…

— John F. Kennedy

I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So…

— Cole Swindell

It's cool to be a Laker: that's basketball royalty, in a sense. The best franchise in basketball, so to be drafted by…

— Kyle Kuzma

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh…

— Dennis Rodman

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a…

— Goran Ivanisevic

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

— Cam Gigandet

I think basketball harnessed and built my toughness and competitiveness. I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and you were either going…

— John Wall

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would…

— Jeff Van Gundy

The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm…

— Lisa Leslie

It is a thrill and an honor to again be a part of the team that helped define my basketball career here…

— Toni Kukoc

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the…

— Dikembe Mutombo

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— Bunnytheis

Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon…

— Hunter S. Thompson

For a while, the story of Luka Doncic seemed like a myth: the tale of a blond basketball demigod with supernatural mental…

— Mina Kimes

A lot of guys who can play really good basketball can drop 40 on you, and it's the same thing with LeBron.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

I am not going to play basketball because I have to play. I am going to play for fun.

— Vlade Divac

When I go on the basketball court, I don't think about who's guarding me.

— Brandon Ingram

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

— Juancho Hernangomez

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want…

— Bear Bryant

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Tom Izzo

We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

— P. J. Carlesimo

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

— Pat Summitt

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.

— Pat Summitt

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I keep all my trash talk to basketball. I don't ever go after anybody.

— Austin Rivers

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

— Allen Iverson

I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am. That's how Philadelphia basketball players are raised.

— Kyle Lowry

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

— Christopher McDougall

I don't really look for the spotlight, I don't look for any of that stuff. I just want to play basketball.

— RJ Barrett