Basketball Quotes · Page 49

I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.

— Charles Barkley

I've been through a lot, not only with basketball, but with life in general.

— Caris LeVert

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

— Bob Cousy

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

— Jerry Tarkanian

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

— Julius Erving

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

— Michael Jordan

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball is a game of mistakes, and we know that we can make mistakes, but things that you can't do is lack…

— Trevor Ariza

“Then I'd tell him how fond I am of basketball, which isn't a total lie because I have a real appreciation for…

— E. Van Lowe

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she…

— Conan O'Brien

I've always been a basketball player. My earliest memories are of playing basketball. I was born playing it. It's why I'm so…

— Jahlil Okafor

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school…

— French Montana

It's over now. He said what he had to say, I said what I had to say. Don't play with me. Seriously,…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball…

— Wally Walker

I loved sports, but I excelled at basketball. We'd nail an old crate onto a wooden board and that was our basket…

— Dawn Staley

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot…

— Chadwick Boseman

I can't coach, but it's ok, it's my players fault, they're just not producing. I can't get on the court for them,…

— John Swickrath

When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all…

— Phil Heath

We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to be an…

— Ralph Miller

It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in…

— Eli Manning

As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I've got to do get my guys going I'll do it…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to…

— Marcus Smart

I love Sundays. basketball, and no food has any calories..

— Josh Hutcherson

One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.

— Toni Kukoc

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

— Nia Jax

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

— Harrison Barnes

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

— Kobe Bryant

I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.

— Baron Davis

Basketball sneakers are for people who want to be comfortable. I rather be uncomfortable and just look nice.

— Lil Tjay

Any time I can play basketball I enjoy being out on the court.

— Lou Williams

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

— Jabari Parker

I've been yelled at by coaches since I was 12 years old playing AAU basketball.

— Maria Taylor

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

— Kanye West

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

— LeBron James

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

— Jim Boeheim

That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

— Al McGuire

Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,

— Ron Paul