Basketball Quotes · Page 62

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

— Mike Krzyzewski

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

— Dean Smith

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

— Oscar Robertson

Hoes Be Like I want a love & basketball relationship -_- bitch do you hoop?

— EmmaBaby

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

— Manu Ginobili

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

— Michael Waltrip

“We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were…

— Nikesh Shukla

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best…

— Andrew Bogut

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.

— Bob Cousy

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some…

— Oscar Robertson

You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely…

— Doug McMillon

I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm…

— Brooklyn Decker

For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys…

— Dwyane Wade

Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless…

— Jim Carroll

Players who are committed to the team first will find a way to help when things are going bad, they will do…

— Dick Bennett

I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the…

— Calvin Ayre

The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been irresponsible…

— Diana Taurasi

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school.…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

From the strength involved, the jumping, to body positioning and control, there are similarities. Playing basketball at a pretty good high school…

— Greg Olsen

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But…

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

This was an extremely difficult decision as I take great pride in representing our country. I know that I owe it to…

— Kevin Durant

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

— Peyton Manning

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

— Jim Calhoun

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

— Jim Valvano

For me, I can only talk so much about basketball, and I get a little bored.

— J. J. Redick

European basketball is no entertainment, it's straight IQ basketball. Straight coaching.

— Dennis Schroder

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

— Jim Caviezel

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

— Jerry Tarkanian

Basketball is fun. It's what I love to do. You got to have fun with it.

— RJ Barrett

Wrestling isn't looked upon like the other sports of football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

— Bruno Sammartino

If I were in charge I'd drug test all you sons of b****es, not just the athletes.

— Bobby Knight

The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.

— Knute Rockne

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

— Shaquille O'Neal

You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player

— Jon Gordon

Don't ever underestimate Bill Russell as a basketball player.

— John Havlicek

My passion is basketball and I'm so lucky to be able to use this sport to give back to my community.

— Pascal Siakam

It's just basketball, man. I think people try to make it something it's not, sometimes.

— Zion Williamson