Basketball Quotes · Page 54

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan. Of course, he would be only 12 years old.

— Jerry Sloan

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

— Romeo Miller

I'm like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. If I'm not ready, the sled isn't going to go.

— Kevin Garnett

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

— Mark Teixeira

If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!

— Christian Laettner

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

— Bill Vaughan

I would say from a young age, basketball had been something I've loved.

— Caris LeVert

If you don't get cut up once in a while, you're playing basketball the wrong way.

— Fred VanVleet

I've always loved basketball. When you're playing pick-up basketball, you just kind of get used to being one of the guys.

— Maria Taylor

I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop,…

— Harvey Penick

I don't have to go through life being mean or having a stern face just to play basketball. I enjoy the game…

— Nick Young

To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward…

— Jermaine O'Neal

We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game.…

— Jason Pierre-Paul

As a basketball fan, I get sick and tired of people talking about numbers. To me, the world is getting too materialistic.

— Shaquille O'Neal

You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of…

— Jim Courier

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

— Blake Griffin

Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is…

— Alwin Nikolais

The thing about playing basketball in Houston was we had a great coach, great system, and we had guys that believed in…

— Robert Horry

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports…

— Steve Kerr

The courts don't remove children from their home because the child underperformed at school or required extra long walks or a game…

— Angela Featherstone

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team.…

— Tom Landry

When you're at the basketball court watching a game, one person may be talking about a fight he had with his wife,…

— John Edgar Wideman

We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have…

— Chris Bosh

I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and…

— John Irving

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

— Denis Leary

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

— Draymond Green

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

— Kyle Korver

I'm a competitor. I like to win games. I like basketball and I like to win games.

— Jim Boeheim

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

— Becky Hammon

I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

— Tim Duncan

I came to the Bay Area not just to play basketball but to explore business interests.

— Andre Iguodala

It's a real advantage in basketball to have great hands.

— Ben Howland

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

— Don Meyer

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

— Al McGuire

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

— Don Meyer

I grew up playing every sport: basketball, soccer, baseball, but I really fell in love with American football.

— Ben Shelton

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

— Chuck Daly

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

— Shaquille O'Neal

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

— Elvin Hayes