Basketball Quotes · Page 92

Basketball is a team game. When you play 100 games in a season, you definitely need everyone to help out.

— Zaza Pachulia

Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great

— Jon Gordon

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

— John Wooden

This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment.

— John Calipari

I want everyone to know: You can play basketball in Canada and you can still get to where you need to go.

— Jamal Murray

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I like basketball, and I've been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.

— Heidi Klum

I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an…

— Tim Duncan

I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start…

— Allen Iverson

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And…

— Larry Sanders

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop…

— James Naismith

All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It…

— Kevin Durant

I was always in the gym. People would look at me crazy because I spent so much time there. But that's what…

— Kevin Durant

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We…

— Lauren Jackson

What am I gonna do to be successful and provide for my family? I was like, I want to play basketball, I…

— Adrien Broner

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to…

— Iyanla Vanzant

Michael Jordan was blessed by God to play basketball and Roger Brown was the closet person to him I ever saw. I…

— Mel Daniels

I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for…

— Boyd Holbrook

I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got…

— Tucker Halpern

I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful…

— Kevin Nash

I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD…

— Marques Houston

I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.

— Shaquille O'Neal

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

— Anne Donovan

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

— Michael Jordan

When you see the kids playing basketball you see how big the sport is, you see how beautiful the sport is.

— Juancho Hernangomez

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

— Wilt Chamberlain

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.

— J-Ro

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it…

— Kevin Durant

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

— Andre Iguodala

I didn't grow up wanting to play basketball. I grew up wanting to enlist and then go into law enforcement.

— Brittney Griner

As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

— Kelvin Sampson

Belief in yourself is what happens when you know you've done the thing things that entitle you to success.

— Pat Summitt

Everybody knows that LeBron James is my favorite basketball player and I love the way he goes to the rack.

— Terrell Suggs