Basketball Quotes · Page 57

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

— Bill Simmons

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

— Kerry Kennedy

The mismatch is not what gets you beat. What gets you beat is giving up the uncontested, open shot.

— Rick Majerus

I just try to learn as much as I can and get better with my music as well as basketball.

— Marvin Bagley III

Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.

— John Wooden

That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.

— Trae Young

So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

— Jaylen Brown

D.C. basketball has adopted me, and I consider D.C. home.

— DeMarcus Cousins

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years…

— Shaquille O'Neal

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems…

— Michael Redd

Basketball, eventually I'm going to have to retire one day. Players are going to come in and take my job. But education,…

— Ben Wallace

I think there is so many elements of the culture of basketball that Jordan leads in and has been a leader over…

— Maya Moore

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly,…

— B. J. Armstrong

As a good player in the inner city, you're always hearing people saying that you're better than you really are and that…

— Carmelo Anthony

There's another level you can take it to knowing that your family is taken care of, friends taken care of, anything that…

— Jordan Poole

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for…

— Bill Russell

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again.…

— Roy Jones Jr

I didn't set out to win Olympic medals, to play at UConn, to play in the WNBA. I just loved to play…

— Diana Taurasi

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions…

— Anna Quindlen

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever,…

— Jimmy Connors

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that…

— Emir Kusturica

I'm just right down the middle, man, ... It doesn't matter to me. I'd love him (Phil Jackson) as a coach. It…

— Kobe Bryant

Guys have made livings off me. Nick Anderson got a new contract. Travis Knight got a new contract off me. As a…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Everywhere I've played, I've played winning basketball. And everywhere I played, we kind of play that way.

— Jordan Poole

The pick and roll is more about bodies and eyes then speed and being fast

— Steve Nash

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

— Don Meyer

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

— Shaquille O'Neal

Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.

— Elena Delle Donne

The first time I played basketball was with my dad and my older brother Thanasis.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

I sit and wonder why no one uses the shot fake. The shot fake, when used correctly, can eliminate a defender

— Bobby Knight

Like my good friend Eminem the rapper says, you only get one shot.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

— Boi-1da

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

— Bill Walton

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

— Jerry Tarkanian

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

— Josh Hutcherson

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Michael Jordan

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Julius Erving