Basketball Quotes · Page 86

I just want to go out there and play basketball, do it at a high level, put us in a position to…

— Bradley Beal

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

— Marissa Jaret Winokur

I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

— Kenyon Martin

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

— George Karl

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

— Sue Bird

Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.

— Peter Billingsley

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

— Donald Glover

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

— Vlade Divac

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'.…

— Phil Jackson

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

— Michael Wilbon

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of…

— Keyshawn Johnson

I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear. Anybody who has a good shot has got to take it and keep…

— Red Auerbach

“Get it together, I told myself.  This isn’t life or death. It’s just college basketball. Nobody was going to die from what…

— Mara Jacobs

Coming out of college, there were a lot of great expectations. I wasn't prepared to handle the W. I had to learn…

— Kelsey Plum

Jaylen's greatest impact, as good as he is at basketball, won't be at basketball. I just think he's a special guy. He's…

— Brad Stevens

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I…

— Terry Crews

When the NBA first resorted to it in 1979, I must admit I thought it was a circus rule, the equivalent of…

— Skip Bayless

Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When I was like 6, my brother took me to the park near our house in Braunschweig, Germany, and taught me to…

— Dennis Schroder

That's how I was taught my whole life. Like when you get a bad wheel, you got a sprained ankle, whatever you…

— Marc Gasol

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Please don't misunderstand, I actually enjoyed the hecticness and the opportunity to cover women's college basketball. But the reality is as a…

— Doris Burke

The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

— Bob Weiss

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

— Wilt Chamberlain

My passion is basketball and I'm so lucky to be able to use this sport to give back to my community.

— Pascal Siakam

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

— Oscar Robertson

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

— Oscar Robertson

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

— Collin Morikawa

I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn't exist.

— Shaquille O'Neal

There have been times when I have failed. But there have never been times when I thought I would fail

— Michael Jordan

I want to set up after-school programs, have basketball camps for the kids and help in the community.

— Aaron Gordon

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

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Kyle Korver

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

— Norm Sloan

I grew up in the '90s loving the basketball sneakers, and that's where fashion really started for me.

— Travis Kelce

I think basketball is a great way to have fun with the kids and teach some values through basketball.

— Ricky Rubio

I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.

— Shaquille O'Neal

We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens.

— Bob Cousy