Basketball Quotes · Page 37

I love all sports but I watch a lot of NBA basketball - I have a big hoop outside my house. As…

— Owen Hargreaves

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

— Michael Jordan

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

— Yao Ming

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

— Pete Maravich

I cherish being on the court, and I really love watching basketball, women's basketball, whatever it is.

— Kyle Kuzma

Maya Moore is one of the greatest champions in basketball, male or female.

— Jalen Rose

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like…

— Joseph Brodsky

When I was young, I never dreamed about winning a national championship. I didn't even play basketball. But I was tall. And…

— Brittney Griner

“Soccer's appeal lay in its opposition to the other popular sports. For children of the sixties, there was something abhorrent about enrolling…

— Franklin Foer

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting…

— Ice Cube

I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.

— Brandon Ingram

I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.

— Derrick Favors

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

— Magic Johnson

I just want us to be playing our best basketball here when the playoffs start, and in the right mindset.

— Nick Nurse

I just think we're all high-level basketball players, best in the world. And no matter the outside circumstance, we still have to…

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

— Garry Shandling

We need to think about women's basketball like the stock market: it grows over time, and you have to put something in…

— Dawn Staley

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

— Mike Krzyzewski

I'm not playing this game just to be a good basketball player. I want to be one of the greatest to ever…

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I went from the skinniest, worst basketball player you could ever imagine coming from my family to the starting high school center,…

— Larry Nance, Jr

The year-round nature of women's basketball takes its toll and the financial opportunity with my team in Russia would have been irresponsible…

— Diana Taurasi

Being an All-Star is everything.

— Allen Iverson

I loved baseball, and I was the best at basketball. Golf was sort of third on my list.

— Gary Woodland

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one…

— Olivia Munn