Ball player Quotes · Page 13

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

— Larry Bird

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

— Jimmer Fredette

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

— Casey Stengel

I'm a basketball player. I'm going to compete every night, play some good ball and get better.

— Robin Lopez

Just to get out, put it out on the line each and every night is a great feeling for a basketball player.

— Jae Crowder

I was a baseball player growing up and wanted to play ball.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

— Jabari Parker

Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

— Rafael van der Vaart

If all you had to be was a comedian to be a good football player. Bob Hope would be great. But you…

— Cris Collinsworth

The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years.…

— Jason Pierre-Paul

I had a lot of friends who were also football players. Some of them ended up in prison, some of them had…

— Marko Arnautovic

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be…

— Charlie Day

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the…

— Jim Bouton

My main focus every game is to just go out there and give it my all. There's no tiptoeing into it or…

— Domantas Sabonis

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the…

— Joe Greene

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions.

— Sherman Alexie

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those…

— Tony Gonzalez

I was a theater kid, and there was still a great theater program, but I remember hearing stuff like, 'Well, they cut…

— Rachel Sennott

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when…

— Zendaya

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing…

— Ali Farahnakian

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were…

— Ben Silbermann

My role models were all men. I grew up - I was a big 1980s Laker fan: you know, the years of…

— Julie Foudy

“It’s hard to imagine that Clarence was once a normal person, a college student, football player and bespectacled counselor at the Jamesburg…

— Bruce Springsteen

I feel like I grew up differently, when you're a child actor you grow up differently, but it's not that different than…

— Dante Basco

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

— Hideki Matsui

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

— Harrison Barnes

As a Premier League football player, you're in the lights a lot.

— Reece James

I can walk into Walmart in California and not really get mentioned for being a football player.

— Kenny Stills

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

— Boi-1da

UCF played a huge part in making me the football player and the person I am today.

— Blake Bortles

You never get to see the intimate side of a football player.

— Travis Kelce

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

— Steve Largent

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

— Shaquille O'Neal

While we glorify football players for their accomplishments on the field, they are not heroes.

— Matt Gaetz

“So their cheerleaders are ugly, their football players are wimps, and they're our archrivals because why?”

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.

— Chris Long

Pele has all the qualities and characteristic that a football player has to have.

— Zico

People see Michael Jordan as a great basketball player, but he's a great businessman, too.

— Harrison Barnes

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

— Brian Urlacher

You don't have to sell the fact that a football player has toughness.

— Howie Long