Basketball Quotes · Page 116

I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.

— Mark Lanegan

I'm under a super microscope. I've got my friends to keep me cool. As long as you've got friends, you've got nothing…

— LeBron James

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

— Vlade Divac

A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.

— Michael Josephson

Love me some basketball.

— Michelle Beadle

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same…

— Michael Chang

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

— Jim Valvano

I'd read about NBA players in magazines when I was growing up in Congo, but I had never actually seen what NBA…

— Serge Ibaka

My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.

— Tony Parker

Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.

— Muhammad Ali

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the…

— Oscar Robertson

I just like watching good basketball being played.

— Andrew Wiggins

“Basketball is a game with winners and losers, but if you play this game with your heart, you're always a winner.”

— C.M

I have always had that idea in my head to make friends from each different sports in different backgrounds. One of them…

— Stefanos Tsitsipas

Our feelings can be hurt, but you can take a yoga class, you can pray, you can play some basketball - you…

— Killer Mike

In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was…

— Hakeem Olajuwon

I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on…

— Oscar Robertson

I've called all sports. I was a radio DJ, club DJ, talk show host, hockey, basketball, football; you name it, I've done…

— Mauro Ranallo

The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

— Earl Monroe

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of…

— George Raveling

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is…

— Jim Valvano

He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's…

— Michael Jordan

I consider myself a basketball aficionado and really understand and know the nuance. I'm a fan of the game. But more than…

— Maverick Carter

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I'm a Christian first. I'm a family guy second. As much as I like coaching, as much as I like basketball, it's…

— Steve Alford

Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose…

— Don Yaeger

I started playing basketball when I was about three years old. After that, everything else just came naturally. I had older cousins…

— Brandon Jennings

When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.

— Al McGuire

I know the Boston fans are all about their basketball.

— Terry Rozier

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of…

— Jason Kidd

To have a basketball hoop, it doesn't matter what kind. It's a big thing for a kid growing up in a small…

— Jonas Valanciunas

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than…

— Lamar Odom

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

— Doc Rivers

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

— Don Meyer

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg…

— Nick McDonell

Center is a very tough position to play.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Brandon Ingram

I don't [know] what everybody else's motives are, I don't know what your motives are, but mine is to portray the real…

— Kevin Durant