Basketball Quotes · Page 212

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

— Vince Carter

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win…

— Myles Garrett

It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this…

— Gregg Popovich

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

— Oscar Robertson

The motivation for me is just the game itself, just playing the game the right way and trying to win, compete every…

— Kobe Bryant

You can't simulate playing basketball no matter how much working out you do.

— Danny Green

Don't let winning make you soft. Don't let losing make you quit. Don't let your teammates down in any situation.

— Larry Bird

Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship,…

— John Eliot

I've been an athlete my whole life. I've played every sport, including soccer, baseball, softball, basketball.

— Nia Jax

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay…

— Carl Lewis

I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom picked me…

— Skylar Astin

Basketball, you're not always going to have your best, but you find ways. If I'm not shooting well, I can pass, I…

— Gary Woodland

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

— Pat Summitt

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for…

— Michael Jordan

I wouldn't. I would just go home. I'd fake an injury or something.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I used to say, as an assistant, I would go in and close my door for three hours after practice and just…

— Nick Nurse

The history, the organization, what the Bulls have meant to the game of basketball and basketball worldwide, I mean, it's an iconic…

— Billy Donovan

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

— LeBron James

My job is to get out there and try to become the best basketball player I can be.

— Paul Millsap

If I get on the golf course, my basketball game is a direct reflection of how many rounds of golf I can…

— Andre Iguodala

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

— William James

We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I was born to be a basketball player, not to be a guy who succeeds inside Goldman Sachs.

— Danilo Gallinari

Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over…

— Bud Wilkinson

I don't have the physical talent those guys have. My hard work has made me very good.

— Reggie Miller