Basketball Quotes · Page 186

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

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

I'm not into no basketball beef.

— Kevin Durant

You have to make shots to win basketball games and we didn't do that. You also have to get back on defense,…

— Gregg Popovich

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

— Carmelo Anthony

I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of…

— Satnam Singh Bhamara

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

— Al McGuire

I feel like basketball brings people together. I can go to any country - Africa, Spain, United States - and you'll find…

— Juancho Hernangomez

I was good at speech and debate and academics. I should've stayed in my lane, but I kept trying out for the…

— Hasan Minhaj

When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I…

— Pam Shriver

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork…

— Bill Goldberg