You don't play basketball for 20, 30 years. You only play, if you're lucky, 10 years. So that is my time. — Danilo Gallinari Copy Share Image
I've been the type of person [and] the type of athlete, I don't like to be given anything. I like to earn. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I have a son and daughter and wife that need me not in basketball mode when I'm home. — George Hill Copy Share Image
Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us. — Kevin Garnett Copy Share Image
The one thing about college basketball is you don't have to have the best player to win. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I believe the only muscles you need in basketball are the ones in your brain. — Nikola Jokic Copy Share Image
I think every basketball player I know loves ping pong. Everyone played in on the Dream Team. I played Clyde Drexler and… — Christian Laettner Copy Share Image
After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last… — Peter Vecsey Copy Share Image
My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the… — Kyle Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself one of those superstars. I just consider myself a guy that was lucky enough to win the… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I've been playing basketball for a long time, so I know when the energy isn't there and I need to step up… — Paul Millsap Copy Share Image
You can't say, 'You're a scorer, you score. You rebound, you rebound.' Basketball is more than that. Basketball is knowing the next… — Charles Oakley Copy Share Image
“Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next… — David Dunham Copy Share Image
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
You look at the NBA: there's all these young kids that are drafted on potential. They go to bad teams, they're in… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
My connections and roots to this land of Australia - the sea, the reefs, the sky, the stars - come from a… — Patty Mills Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you get a career-threatening injury your career is done and you need something to fall back on. But if it wasn't… — Jack Butland Copy Share Image
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
“I was all about resurrecting the lost art of the midrange jumper, but then one day I was shooting free throws—just standing… — John Green Copy Share Image
People think I'm into sports because I'm a man. But I'm not into sports. I like Gatorade, but that's about as far… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
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