Basketball Quotes · Page 60

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

— Anonymous

I'm on Instagram, and all my fans on my Instagram are basketball fans - like 90 percent.

— JaVale McGee

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Iman Shumpert

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

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Markieff Morris

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

— Stephen Jackson

Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the…

— John Wooden

I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my…

— Shaquille O'Neal

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different…

— Dikembe Mutombo

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my…

— Charles Barkley

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other…

— Tim Duncan

Our titles would not have been possible without the unselfishness displayed by all our teams, the team wins, not the individuals

— John Wooden

When you come off a losing season - one of the worst seasons in all of basketball - and get guys like…

— Paul Pierce

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball,…

— Earl Monroe

We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the…

— Vin Scully

I remember playing hockey as a kid - I was goalie in gym class and I was pretty good at it. But…

— Jamal Murray

When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all…

— John Elway

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water.…

— Iggy Pop

Over the years, Coach Staley has become like my second mom. And she has helped me with so much on the basketball…

— A'ja Wilson

I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was…

— Allen Iverson

I have no perception of what it would be like to play basketball against LeBron James. The thought of someone that big…

— Mat Fraser

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when…

— Jeremy Lin

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

— Nicki Minaj

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

— Magic Johnson

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

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

— Jon Gordon

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

— Byron Scott

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

— Julius Erving

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

— Harrison Barnes

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

— John Carpenter

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

— Jim Valvano

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

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

— De'Aaron Fox

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

— Tom Tolbert

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

— Candace Parker

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

— Reggie Miller

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

— Rick Majerus

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

— John Wooden