Basketball is my first love. If my health had permitted me, I would still be playing, but I am glad in retrospect… — Tucker Halpern Copy Share Image
I wasn't drafted. I was just playing really good basketball, enjoying playing basketball with my national team and never really thought: 'I… — Jose Calderon Copy Share Image
Why can't you be both? Why can't I be on the basketball team but also be the student president? — Donovan Mitchell Copy Share Image
If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
Kobe taught people how to work hard, he taught you how to work hard. He gave you the blueprint of what you… — Patrick Beverley Copy Share Image
That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game.… — Jason Pierre-Paul Copy Share Image
Embrace what makes up you. Some stereotypes are true - I love chicken, but that's a stereotype, I love f**king basketball, but… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I think if you're playing basketball, you're helping yourself for football or baseball. — Sean Payton Copy Share Image
A lot of the NBA teams didn't know I wanted to pursue basketball, and I'm trying to show them I do. — Pat Connaughton Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm trying to change basketball; being a center, being able to play both sides of the ball and being… — Bam Adebayo Copy Share Image
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl… — Kyla Pratt Copy Share Image
He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe… — Scottie Pippen Copy Share Image
You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football. — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday. He had worked… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. — Chuck Daly Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
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