I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself) emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties… — Roger Crawford Copy Share Image
I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a… — Harvey Mason, Jr Copy Share Image
I played basketball when I was little because it was fun for me. It still is now. I just love it. I… — Kawhi Leonard Copy Share Image
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
Magic has lived an extraordinary life as a champion athlete, passionate activist, and highly successful entrepreneur. The impact of Magic's life on… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Basketball is a lifelong game. You continue to learn from the game day in and day out, and all along the way,… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last… — Norm Sloan Copy Share Image
JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but… — Larry Johnson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
There's no equal amount of training or conditioning individually you can do to simulate a 5-on-5 basketball game. It's such a different… — Danny Green Copy Share Image
I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
It's superb, definitely. Something that is new to me, that is shocking. I got the news last night about 3 in the… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
Staying low, not dipping the basketball, being efficient on my jabs and movements - paying attention to these things helped me grow… — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I'm asleep, I'm thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
This is not the job. We are just playing the game here. I am enjoying the game. I am playing every game… — Nikola Jokic Copy Share Image
I'm 6-foot-4. If my life depended on it, I could still dunk a basketball. Then I would need assistance from a first… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
I really like to play to squash, because it's competitive, and I like basketball. I'm friends with a guy in L.A. called… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was… — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
In high school, my principal was a priest and my assistant basketball coach. We were close. In high school, I would talk… — Donte DiVincenzo Copy Share Image
When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
When I was maybe 12, 13, I started watching film on him and highlights. Then I realized what my dad really was.… — Domantas Sabonis Copy Share Image
Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible.… — Jerry West Copy Share Image
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can… — Oscar Robertson Copy Share Image
You're really motivated, you want to give your best on every possession, and you just play basketball. That's the best way to… — Luka Doncic Copy Share Image
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
I have shot a basketball my whole life and it is both physical and it is mental as well. Overall I think… — Eric Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to… — Nnamdi Asomugha Copy Share Image
I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
There was a TV show that came on every week called the 'Bowery Boys,' and there was a character named Muggsy. The… — Muggsy Bogues Copy Share Image
When you play basketball, you win and lose games, and there's gonna be an adjustment period and learning to understand what's going… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
