Basketball Quotes · Page 159

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Duke basketball, that tradition and what it means to the school, is pretty neat.

— Daniel Jones

The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.

— DeMarcus Cousins

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

— Dean Smith

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

— Will Ferrell

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put…

— Don Meyer

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

— Don Meyer

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

— Kevin Durant

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

— Mike Krzyzewski

There's an art to basketball; there's a passion to it.

— Fabolous

Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.

— Michael Jordan

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it…

— D'Angelo Russell

And I've always been able to play basketball at the highest level, and been able to play a significant role on the…

— Jae Crowder

Every time I go out on the floor, it doesn't matter what is going on in my life or on the floor…

— Tobias Harris

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

— Brian Tracy

I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and…

— Matt Harvey

“If we didn't have our first game tomorrow, I would go over to one of the classrooms in the charter school, get…

— Adrian Wojnarowski

Anytime you get a chance to play in front of a big crowd is always good I feel like, for any basketball…

— Danny Green

I enjoyed basketball and baseball too much to let football take over.

— Justin Herbert

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

— Jim Calhoun

Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.

— Charles Barkley

I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States'…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball is fun. It's what I love to do. You got to have fun with it.

— RJ Barrett

I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball and theatre.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin