Basketball Quotes · Page 113

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

— Abhishek Bachchan

Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.

— Bobby Knight

We would have two less championships here if it was not for Manu Ginobili. In my eyes, he's the stud of the…

— Gregg Popovich

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

— Billy Tubbs

I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out…

— Chamique Holdsclaw

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am…

— Shaquille O'Neal

“What Michelle didn’t yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball…

— Pat Summitt

I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional.

— Jim Brown

Loyalty is a cohesive force that forges individuals into a team.

— John Wooden

If you ask somebody who played basketball against me in the first grade and you watch a tape, it's been with me…

— Avery Bradley

The Miami Heat has the best fans.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I graduated with about 23 people, so if you were the least bit athletic, you kind of had to play everything. So…

— Cole Swindell

I'm going to watch basketball regardless of whether I coach or watch it on TV.

— Metta World Peace

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.

— Stephen Graham Jones

“Want to go upstairs and play ball?" "Now, you're talking. Naked basketball. Always my favorite." "Loser gets fucked first." "Jesus, Thursday, every…

— Mercy Celeste

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

— Bobby Knight

I had to relearn myself and what I love outside of basketball and value things that weren't performance-based.

— Kelsey Plum

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

— Pat Riley

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

— Antonio Gates

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

— Julius Erving

I think Bush came back because Colin Powell was there. Hey, I'm the brigadier general, baby.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

— Frosty Westering

I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.

— Seth Curry

T-Mac was a beast, man. He had everything. There wasn't anything that T-Mac couldn't do on the basketball court.

— Aaron Gordon

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports.…

— Geena Davis

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

— Heidi Klum

My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he…

— Nolan North

That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

— Steve Nash

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

— Julius Erving

Champions behave like champions before they are champions

— Bill Walsh

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want…

— LeBron James

Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

— Bill Russell

The people at the top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

— Malcolm Gladwell

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

— Oscar Robertson

To be honest I never watch a tennis match. I watch basketball a lot, soccer, never tennis.

— Gael Monfils

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at…

— Don Meyer

A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The…

— Pete Carril

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget…

— Guy Zucker