Basketball Quotes · Page 91

Good players can take coaching; great players can take coaching and learn.

— John Wooden

I'm competitive. You can ask my family. Even if it's not basketball, it's anything.

— Luka Doncic

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

— Michael Jordan

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I look back at my basketball career, I want to say I tried to inspire as much as I could.

— Enes Kanter

Since I've been in fourth grade, all I've known was basketball.

— Greg Oden

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

— Don Meyer

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

— Jerry Ferrara

You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done…

— LeBron James

I played street basketball for a while and wanted to play competitively, but I was so used to the street-style of game…

— J. D. Martinez

It's basketball. At the end of the day everyone wants to win, and that's really the reason why we play is to…

— Collin Sexton

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I…

— DeMar DeRozan

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never…

— Andrew Carnegie

The history, the organization, what the Bulls have meant to the game of basketball and basketball worldwide, I mean, it's an iconic…

— Billy Donovan

I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body…

— Sheryl Swoopes

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's…

— Bo Jackson

Over the years Ive learned that just because you follow God, it doesnt mean you win every game or get what you…

— Jeremy Lin

“All great athletes essentially come to a fork in the road where they have to change their approach to succeed. It's a…

— Walt Frazier

My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better…

— Derrick Rose

Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to…

— Joe Namath

Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner…

— Adam Silver

My dad had always encouraged me to play basketball, he didn't push me too much at first - he wanted me to…

— A'ja Wilson

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it.…

— Pat Summerall

You can never stop learning as a basketball player and it's my goal to keep growing every day.

— Tobias Harris

I hold it more important to hold the player's confidence than their affection.

— Vince Lombardi

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

— Karl Malone

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

— Brad Stevens

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

— Earl Monroe

I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.

— John Isner

Alabama's a football state and you really don't get too many basketball players out there.

— Eric Bledsoe

When I started playing basketball, I hated it because football had always been my sport.

— Luol Deng

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

— Tom Heinsohn

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

— George Raveling

Notre Dame was the first school to offer me basketball-wise.

— Pat Connaughton

Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books.

— John Edgar Wideman

When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

— Scottie Pippen

I haven't been an athlete in school or college, though I have played basketball and football.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin