Basketball Quotes · Page 46

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

— Bear Bryant

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

— Deandre Ayton

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

— David Duchovny

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

— Oscar Robertson

Im good at surfing, good at certain things but everyone pretty much sucked at basketball.

— Katherine Moennig

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

— Danny Pudi

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

— Cindy Nelson

Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.

— Shaquille O'Neal

On court you have to find it. No one else can find it for you. Its just you, only you, dont rely…

— Anonymous

I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.

— Doris Burke

I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff…

— Shaquille O'Neal

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets…

— Gene Shue

We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated…

— Merlin Olsen

As a kid from Detroit, I played whatever sport was in season: football, basketball, wrestling, whatever it was. I was an active…

— Jalen Rose

What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

— Bill Russell

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom…

— Hakeem Olajuwon

I think everyone that's from Cleveland knows exactly where they were when the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA Finals. I was filming…

— The Miz

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of…

— John Edgar Wideman

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in…

— John Wooden

I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful…

— Kevin Nash

When I announced my retirement, that was actually when I was trying to come back and I realized, it just wasn't viable.…

— Forrest Griffin

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher…

— Aaron Judge

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of…

— Tony Dungy

Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him…

— Sam Cassell

Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

— Allen Iverson

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

— Bobby Knight

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

— John Wooden

I've always been a scientist in terms of watching basketball. I like to dissect it all.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

— Charles Barkley

I'm into hiking and mountains and I follow hockey and basketball pretty avidly.

— Hikaru Nakamura

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

— Blake Griffin

During the season, I'm always locked in one gear, ready to play basketball, always keeping my guard up.

— Donovan Mitchell

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.

— Shane Battier

I've accomplished everything I tried to accomplish in basketball.

— Chauncey Billups

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

— Terrell Owens

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

— Bill Walsh

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

— Don Meyer

Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them

— Thad Matta

I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last thing I thought of when I was a little kid.

— Zion Williamson

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri