Basketball Quotes · Page 52

Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!

— Rick Majerus

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

— John C. Maxwell

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

— Jim Valvano

I'm not out there to win a popularity contest. I'm out there to win basketball games.

— Reggie Miller

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

— Candace Parker

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

— Tom Tolbert

You can do all of the conditioning that you want, it's not the same as playing basketball.

— De'Aaron Fox

I was known as the weird guy who couldn't play basketball because I had to go to hockey practice twice a week.

— T. J. Oshie

I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and…

— Shaquille O'Neal

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football…

— James Reston, Jr

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

— Romeo Miller

My father brought a basketball to the hospital when I was born, and he already had it embedded in his head that…

— Dave East

I think I could've been successful in most any sport I put my mind to. But I've never regretted playing only basketball.

— John Havlicek

Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought…

— Shaquille O'Neal

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be…

— Kyle Lowry

I'm excited to partner with the No. 1 residential basketball company in the world. Lifetime makes some of the best hoops around,…

— Joe Ingles

I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team.…

— Geno Auriemma

I'm not flashy. I'll do nice things on the floor, but I'm not going to do the really impressive dunk or make…

— Malcolm Brogdon

I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him,…

— Shaquille O'Neal

My daughter, she loves gymnastics. I take her to gymnastics and watch her compete. It's fun to see something you have rub…

— Eric Bledsoe

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I…

— Terry Crews

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.…

— Bear Bryant

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia.…

— Dikembe Mutombo

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball,…

— Don Andrews

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

— Bob Cousy

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

— O. J. Mayo

I love the game of basketball so to neglect one side of the floor, that's disrespecting the game to me.

— Aaron Gordon

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basketball.

— Derrick Rose

I love Miami: great town, always loved it, a great place to play basketball.

— Chris Bosh

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

— Don Meyer

My dreams were only basketball - I never wanted to buy a house or anything, it was just about basketball.

— Austin Reaves

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

— John Wooden

I've always tried to have fun when I go out and play basketball.

— Brook Lopez

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

— Jim Nantz

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

— Stephen Curry

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.

— David Fizdale

This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.

— Allen Iverson