NBA Quotes · Page 33

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!

— Eddie Griffin

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made…

— Michael Jordan

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home…

— Allen Iverson

I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the…

— Shaquille O'Neal

We were in the NBA Finals. Two games away from winning it. I think we did pretty well.

— David Blatt

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.

— Frank Vogel

In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he…

— Jerry Sloan

Let the D-League be for players who have been in the NBA, who are on the fringe, and that want to fight…

— John Calipari

I got a ballclub in Germany. It's not the NBA, but it's the first division in Germany and I know you got…

— Dennis Schroder

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA…

— Serge Ibaka

As I've gotten older in the NBA, I'm one of the more experienced guys and kind of know what to do in…

— David Lee

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you…

— Shaquille O'Neal

It wasn't until I moved to Spain that I actually got my first glimpse of the NBA. I'd watch this program called…

— Serge Ibaka

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have…

— Charles Barkley

Superstar NBA players don't just change positions in their prime. Not eight years into their careers... not when they've been consistently at…

— Trevor Ariza

I know everybody in the NBA watches each other's styles. They might not admit it, but they do.

— Nick Young

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

— Iman Shumpert

There have been few players that haven't been traded over the years in the NBA.

— Marc Gasol

I feel like a lot of people know and understand that I have to be top-two, top-three best perimeter defenders in the…

— Avery Bradley

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

— Rick Pitino

What I can't wait to show the world when I make my NBA debut is a player who can handle, shoot, go…

— Caris LeVert

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

— Jeff Van Gundy

The NBA is the world's best basketball league and you can't go further than that.

— Cedi Osman

I have one thing to say to those non-believers. Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion.

— Rudy Tomjanovich

I just wanted to get to the NBA. I never thought I would have a career that I've had now.

— Robert Horry

You can ask all the best players in the NBA - there's not one player in the NBA that guards them like…

— Avery Bradley

I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when…

— Jahlil Okafor

I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look…

— Allen Iverson

We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.

— Charles Barkley

I think I brought something different to the NBA. I brought that I can do pretty much everything on the floor.

— Nikola Jokic

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

— Jack Ramsay

Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals

— Jack Ramsay

I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.

— Mike Tirico

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake

— Thad Matta

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

— Doc Rivers

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about…

— John Calipari

Obviously, getting drafted into the NBA is an amazing feeling. So I was happy regardless of who drafted me.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

It's fun to be tasked with making plays and being allowed that freedom. It's everything I really dreamed of in the NBA.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I'm comfortable being around the NBA lifestyle, the travel, the hotels, the pregame, everything.

— John Collins