Basketball Quotes · Page 71

I'm a basketball player, so I want to do whatever I've got to do to be on the floor and I'm prepared…

— Tyrese Haliburton

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

— LeBron James

Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

— Stephon Marbury

If you have talent with teamwork, you've got a chance to be a championship team.

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

— Dennis Schroder

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

— J. J. Redick

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

— Jim Valvano

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

— Jim Calhoun

I've been 11, 12 percent body fat my whole career. But when you've got a big, sexy, beautiful man that's up in…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Winning is the first priority. Individual development is important, but if each guy gets better, the team gets better

— Lawrence Frank

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We…

— Lauren Jackson

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling;…

— Daniel Cormier

I don't really care about anything else outside of basketball when I'm in between the lines. Winning is the main thing, so…

— Austin Reaves

I love basketball, I dream about basketball, but I'm not used to playing 20 minutes of hard basketball, then stopping for 40…

— Juancho Hernangomez

“I drink coffee like other men play basketball. I drink like a woman, and that’s why I use a slightly smaller ball.”

— Jarod Kintz

By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.

— Daniel Hanley

If the jump is perfect, you come out, and you feel like you took a three-pointer in basketball or doing the perfect…

— Nathan Chen

A big market is something that doesn't really concern me too much. It's cool to think about, it's good for off-the-court deals.…

— Kevin Durant

People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just…

— Avery Johnson

“He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders. “Dude, pillows don’t break. Try something that breaks.” Isaac reached for…

— John Green

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite…

— Stephen Dunn

A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The…

— Pete Carril

They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think the ultimate thing is basketball will never be what makes me 100 percent happy. This has always been my dream…

— Aaron Gordon

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

— Peyton Manning

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

— Michael Waltrip

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

— Manu Ginobili

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

— Hakeem Olajuwon

I miss playing basketball and the city of Portland and the Rose Garden.

— LaMarcus Aldridge

In terms of the grand scheme of life, life is so much bigger than basketball.

— Kelsey Plum

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

— Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

— Michael Douglas

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

— John Wooden

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

— EmmaBaby

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

— Oscar Robertson

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

— Dean Smith

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

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

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

— Jim Valvano

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

— Zion Williamson