I don't play basketball for the money; it was the last…

I don't play basketball for the money. I don't play it for the crowd. When I didn't have a friend, when I was lonely,…

— Eli Manning

There's a lot of guys that play the game of basketball for the money, for the fame.

— Stephen Jackson

That's why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

— Zion Williamson

The money thing, that's money, I don't play this for money, I play for the love of the game.

— Zion Williamson

I just started growing. And everyone said, 'You should probably play basketball.' So I said, 'All right. I'll give it a shot.'

— Anthony Bennett

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet…

— Jay Leno

I play basketball hard-nosed and if you're not on my team, during that 48 minutes we're enemies.

— Matt Barnes

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind…

— Zygmunt Bauman

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

— Christopher Paolini

“You speak evil of that which is fair beyond the reach of your thought, and only little wit can excuse you.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

— Mikhail Lermontov

“We thought a little longer, and in the end we simply called her Joy.”

— David Almond

“I almost thought we had a little connection going on there.”

— Anna Carven

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

— John Ruskin

“True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see…

— Lermontov, Mikhail