Basketball Quotes · Page 53

I had always wanted to see Europe, and what better way to see it than to spend a year there playing basketball?

— Mike D'Antoni

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

— Josh Howard

We knew he was a basketball player, but we saw him as our dad.

— Domantas Sabonis

Why can't you be both? Why can't I be on the basketball team but also be the student president?

— Donovan Mitchell

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

— Rick Fox

Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge.

— Steve Nash

Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.

— Penny Hardaway

I think Jeff Hornacek is a very, very good basketball coach and an outstanding person.

— Jeff Van Gundy

I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action…

— Yao Ming

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I love basketball and I love playing it, but there will be a stage in my career when I have to hang…

— Patty Mills

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating…

— John Edgar Wideman

This is what you do your routine for, so when playoff basketball comes, it helps you stay fresh, sharp, energized, strong -…

— Khris Middleton

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

— Kobe Bryant

I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home…

— Luis Fonsi

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical…

— Alex Morgan

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life…

— Walter Dean Myers

The first three championships that I won, I won them. I had big numbers and I won them. And last year, the…

— Shaquille O'Neal

There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the…

— Josh McDowell

As an agent - and I don't like the word - you get the perception that it's all about money. And it's…

— Rich Paul

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting…

— Ice Cube

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a…

— Michael Jordan

When I was a kid, I played basketball religiously. I begged my mom to get me voice lessons because I wanted to…

— Justin Timberlake

I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my…

— Avery Johnson

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

— Don Meyer

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

— Bob Cousy

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

— Jason Kidd

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

— Mike Krzyzewski

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

— Pete Maravich

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could…

— David Morse

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

— John Amaechi

If something works for another school, use it. Don't act like you are too good to use other ideas

— Hubie Brown

There's nothing like watching basketball being played at its finest.

— Jay Williams

Basketball at any level, middle school, high school, college, pro, winning basketball is winning basketball.

— Alex Caruso

You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

— Lawrence Frank

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

— Al McGuire

I love basketball culture, the way they combine university graduates with inner-city kids.

— Jesse Marsch

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

— Juliana Harkavy

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts.

— Mike Krzyzewski