Basketball Quotes

I hated basketball.

— A'ja Wilson

I can't palm a basketball.

— Carmelo Anthony

Whatever it takes to win.

— Pat Riley

Incense. Books. Just weird.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Because there are no fours.

— Antoine Walker

I'm a big competitor.

— Kevin Durant

Basketball is a fun game.

— Caris LeVert

I respect the older guys.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

— Chuck Daly

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

— John Wooden

A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.

— Napoleon Hill

Practice structure determines success.

— Bobby Knight

He is an old glove, but he looked like the old Glove.

— Shaquille O'Neal

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

— Dennis Rodman

Name 12 players better than me.

— Jalen Rose

What does this program/team need this week?

— Dick Bennett

When I introduce my basketball friends to golf, I tell them to just swing halfway. The power is the easy part.

— Andre Iguodala

Timmy, he's the beginning of it. He doesn't have to be the end all the time now.

— Gregg Popovich

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

— Chuck Person

I was all for basketball, and I made the decision to play tennis.

— Nick Kyrgios

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

— Jack Ramsay

Play good basketball and you are going to get guys' best games.

— Tristan Thompson

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

— Charles Barkley

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

— Jermaine O'Neal

Basketball really is a metaphor for life - the intangible skills I have learned on the court, have helped shape the person…

— Ashley Graham

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't…

— Steve Nash

You just try to take it one day at a time, ... You step on the basketball floor and just play. It's…

— Kobe Bryant

When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So…

— Brandon Ingram

The basketball stuff has been the easiest part. The stuff that comes out of it, you lose a game and everyone talks…

— Rodney Hood

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

I love the big, like, basketball sweats... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones.

— Brad Goreski

I thought tennis was a boring sport. Football and basketball and baseball were the cooler sports to play in America. So those…

— Ben Shelton

I hear all theses negative things about me on social media. People saying I can't play basketball & volleyball, but guess what…

— Kristen Farah

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

For once in my career, I won't have to hold anybody's hand and they won't have to hold mine. I'm surrounded by…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I had orders from the great Bill Russell. Me and him were talking in Seattle the other day, and he was telling…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been…

— Udonis Haslem

This really isn't a game we really should be proud of. This game is liking taking your kids to the zoo. You're…

— Shaquille O'Neal

My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they…

— Talib Kweli

I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is…

— Kristaps Porzingis