Basketball Quotes · Page 75

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

— Sue Bird

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

— John Wooden

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

— Oscar Robertson

I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.

— Paul Merson

The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

— Paul Westhead

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

— Collin Morikawa

Basketball was my thing I was always able to use to forget everything.

— Jahlil Okafor

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

— Norm Sloan

If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're…

— Magic Johnson

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim…

— James Lafferty

We were able to change the mold of the regular season for Notre Dame basketball, so we thought, 'Why can't we do…

— Pat Connaughton

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to…

— Pat Riley

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is…

— Steve Nash

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little…

— Kevin Garnett

I love the game of basketball. I love being able to work every day. I love being able to watch film, be…

— Jalen Brunson

I'm a cop, and cops talk. They called me the day he did it, but did you ever hear me say anything…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Do we play Chicago again? I going to hit Othella Harrington right in the mouth. If he didn't have his clumsy ass…

— Shaquille O'Neal

One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war.…

— Sonny Vaccaro

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him…

— Jimmy Connors

I just want people to see another side of me. People only see basketball because I'm on the court all the time.…

— Marvin Bagley III

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my…

— Kris Humphries

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s…

— Andre Iguodala

My thing is, when Barkley played basketball, he didn't practice, he wasn't a leader, he wasn't this or that, he just had…

— Charles Oakley

Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money…

— Jesse Jackson

He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

— Don Meyer

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

— Dean Smith

I'm from the Midwest, so I know what Indiana basketball is all about and I'm very blessed to be a part of…

— Caris LeVert

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

— Andre Iguodala

“Because it’s you and basketball, Christian. Only one of you can break my heart.”

— Amy Lane

I want to be the best in life. In all parts in life, not just basketball.

— Devin Booker

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

— Chuck Daly

When I'm away from basketball, I hang out with my friends, chill, and that's about it.

— Kawhi Leonard

(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.

— Shaquille O'Neal

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

— Grace Jones

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

— John C. Maxwell

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I'm just another one of the guys who happens to be really good at basketball and don't look like I should be.

— Alex Caruso

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

— Jaylen Brown

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

— Bill Laimbeer