Basketball Quotes · Page 205

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

— Kevin Garnett

I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care…

— LeBron James

If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll?…

— Billy Donovan

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

— Chuck Daly

Basically, I come from other planet. Like Superman, from Krypton. I don't show my power because I want to play basketball.

— Boban Marjanovic

To be successful you need to have good, happy Players.

— Norm Sloan

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to…

— Joe Namath

The only way to condition for basketball is to actually play basketball.

— Jrue Holiday

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

— LeBron James

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

— Bobby Knight

I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday…

— Grant Hill

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins…

— Michael Wilbon

It's always important when you play in a tournament that they have a basketball court and an arena.

— Jim Boeheim

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball…

— John Amaechi

At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man.

— Draymond Green

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my…

— Bill Russell

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

— Art Spander

My earliest childhood memories are of my dad putting a basketball in my hand and playing with me in our backyard.

— Jamal Crawford

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

— Bill Parcells

Man, at the end of the day, it's just a game. And the way I look at it, when I have fun,…

— Lonzo Ball

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think with the whole revenue deal, everybody from top to bottom probably gets impacted by it. It's just a different era…

— Jae Crowder

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

— Allen Iverson

As a basketball player, you want to play. There's only so much stuff I can go over doing one-on-one drills in practice…

— Grayson Allen