Basketball Quotes · Page 38

I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.

— Skip Bayless

I've been engulfed in sports since I was a 2-year-old; I picked up any kind of ball - a basketball, baseball, football…

— Freddie Gibbs

I really love the game. I really love basketball.

— Fred VanVleet

I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him…

— Bobby Knight

I'll play all five positions if my team needs me to.

— Kevin Durant

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

— Dean Smith

Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And…

— Barack Obama

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

— LeBron James

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.

— Tony Gonzalez

Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right…

— Patrick Beverley

If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a…

— Bob Costas

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

— Kyle Korver

Basketball is a global sport.

— Clyde Drexler

I just love playing basketball, so it's good being in the gym.

— Brandon Ingram

If you ain't got the ball, you can't shoot the ball

— Moses Malone

On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a…

— Charles Barkley

I've always been team first trying to win games. If that's me starting basketball games then that's what we'll do. If that's…

— Alex Caruso

When I was 13 years old, that's when my team assigned me - and I wound up living, like, six hundred kilometers…

— Jose Calderon

I've always been a basketball junkie... Always watched videos, slowed them down.

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

— Derek Fisher

Basketball is a short period of time, and you've got to take advantage of it.

— Sue Bird

People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.

— Joe Gibbs

Once I feel like I know my teammates, know where everybody is going to be, being a basketball player will allow me…

— Zion Williamson

Look, I have no qualms about having played basketball. The game has done so much for me. Look at the places I've…

— Bill Bradley