Basketball Quotes · Page 51

I play basketball ! Could I get your name and number ? So I can put it on my jersey.

— Anonymous

Seattle deserves a team. They got robbed of their basketball team.

— Gary Payton

I'm playing basketball. It's my dream job. So I'm a pretty happy camper.

— Iman Shumpert

Opinions are like belly buttons; everybody has one. I never knock a man for his opinion.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Five seconds is a long time when it comes to basketball.

— Austin Reaves

I'm meeting people I never would have met at Brown and doing things I couldn't do because of basketball.

— Tucker Halpern

Oh man... growing up, I played everything. I played football, basketball, baseball.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

— Vlade Divac

A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees…

— Luol Deng

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will…

— Shaquille O'Neal

A reporter started off: "I know a lot of this is kind of speculation." Popovich interupting: "You're going to ask me anyway."…

— Gregg Popovich

Offensively, I have a high basketball IQ, I look to get everyone involved, set screens, take charges, get steals; all of the…

— Jared Dudley

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having…

— Steve Nash

It's been so much fun for me here in Utah and growing up here, starting a family, growing from a basketball standpoint,…

— Gordon Hayward

Every great basketball team, every team that's on a championship journey takes steps each year, taking a step further than they were…

— Frank Vogel

I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny,…

— Michael Jordan

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the…

— Bill Simmons

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's…

— Kobe Bryant

“Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé “IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE.” 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a…

— Calvin Trillin

I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real…

— Kevin Durant

“One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the cosmos. I can…

— Charles Barkley

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time…

— Don Meyer

I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last…

— Ryan Montgomery

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

— Wilt Chamberlain

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

— Magic Johnson

The party's just getting started. This is where the fun starts.

— Kobe Bryant

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

— John Carpenter

This is the NBA, so there's basketball and then there's business.

— Harrison Barnes

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

— Julius Erving

Unlike last year, we're not just happy to be here in the Finals

— Byron Scott

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

— Jon Gordon

I traveled more than you walkin' with a basketball. I'm out in Spain runnin' games with the El Matador.

— Nicki Minaj

There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.

— Stephen Jackson

It wasn't about the money. I was just playing basketball, playing with my brother, happy being in the NBA.

— Markieff Morris

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

— Dennis Rodman

They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.

— Magic Johnson

I never forced my boys to play basketball. I only work with them on individual problems when they come to me.

— George Mikan

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

— John Wooden