Basketball Quotes · Page 86

For me, basketball was the way I was able to hone my leadership skills during the heat of competition.

— Baron Davis

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

— Joe Morton

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

— B. C. Forbes

It's a dream come true for me - for every kid that plays basketball - to make an All-Star game. It's amazing.

— Luka Doncic

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

— Dennis Rodman

I was never able to be a part of U.S.A. Basketball in high school or college. So for me, it's a privilege.

— Donovan Mitchell

I'm one of the best defenders to ever play basketball, so I'm still the first option on defense.

— Metta World Peace

When I get on the basketball court, there's not too many things I can't do.

— Stephon Marbury

People sometimes think that if someone plays basketball, they have to do that one thing they're great at. But I like being…

— Iman Shumpert

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy…

— John Calipari

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of…

— David Sanborn

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger.…

— Sheryl Swoopes

Tattoos don't impress me. For me it's just another awkward part of fame. It's extraordinary - tattoos in basketball and soccer, it's…

— Phil Collins

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

— Frosty Westering

It's always fun. It's basketball. It's like the most fun thing we do. If you take it away from us, we're upset.…

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

— Gabrielle Union

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's…

— Kobe Bryant

“Chapter One Vivek Ranadivé “IT WAS REALLY RANDOM. I MEAN, MY FATHER HAD NEVER PLAYED BASKETBALL BEFORE.” 1. When Vivek Ranadivé decided…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a…

— Calvin Trillin

“One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy. One trillion b-balls being slam dunked through a hoop throughout the cosmos. I can…

— Charles Barkley

I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real…

— Kevin Durant

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time…

— Don Meyer

I don't think anything of Laura Frank. You heard me - Laura Frank. Not Lawrence. Laura... It's not that I blame him,…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team.…

— Geno Auriemma

Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.

— Yao Ming

“What does a basketball player do before he blows out his candles? A: He makes a swish!”

— Uncle Amon

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

— John Wooden

I was recruited at Alabama and at Auburn to play basketball.

— Luther Strange

When The Phenoix Suns are missing two basketballs, they'll know where to look!

— Bobby Heenan

No one would get a tattoo like this, so I decided to get Jesus holding a basketball.

— Derrick Favors

I cannot change myself. That's how I think. That's how I like basketball.

— Nikola Jokic

I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

— LeBron James

In planning any type of offense, when a player leaves a spot always replace him with another offensive player.

— Hubie Brown

Basketball is really important to a lot of people in the U.S., and no one takes it more serious than women.

— Diana Taurasi

Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball's taken everything out of me and everything given me.

— John Havlicek

I just try to go out there and win, and play good basketball.

— George Hill

My philosophy of defense is to keep the pressure on an opponent until you get to his emotions

— John Wooden

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

— Dean Smith

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

— Dennis Rodman