Basketball player Quotes · Page 6

I'm just a basketball player. There's so much I can do on the floor.

— DeMarcus Cousins

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

— Eli Manning

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

— Billy Donovan

In high school, I had size and I had raw potential, but as a basketball player I was hot garbage.

— Channing Frye

My older brothers were both basketball players so I just grew up around the gym.

— Brook Lopez

When I started out, I was a basketball player at Texas Wesleyan University.

— The Undertaker

Every basketball player wants to wear their team's throwback jerseys.

— Jared Dudley

I think I'm a basketball player before I'm a point guard or a shooting guard.

— Tyrese Haliburton

I grew up dreaming about being an Olympic basketball player: Doug Collins getting smashed into the stanchion, making two free throws. Phil…

— Jeff Van Gundy

Seeing the evolution of myself - being a rookie, doing different things in the community, growing as a basketball player, different fashions…

— Dillon Brooks

For us, as hoopers and as basketball players, doesn't matter the scenario, the scene. True hoopers and true basketball players are going…

— Paul Millsap

Anytime you get a chance to play in front of a big crowd is always good I feel like, for any basketball…

— Danny Green

“This Sportybella Girls Basketball Jewelry Set is a fun way to express your love of Basketball. This makes a perfect gift for…

— Sportybella

I'm a basketball player. I can play the whole game. Of course, when you get older, it's a little bit tougher, but…

— Goran Dragic

Any professional basketball player should make 75 percent of his free throw attempts. There is no excuse for a pro failing to…

— John Havlicek

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just…

— Chamillionaire

You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come…

— Iman Shumpert

Before Julius Erving, being a stylish basketball player meant 13 ounces of pomade in your hair and color coordinating the belt in…

— Sean Evans

You don't ever want to be a mechanical basketball player, but as far as technique and things, I like to have certain…

— Kyle Korver

Basketball is a five-player game, only five people can play, but when you're growing up there's 10 players on a team usually…

— Tyrese Haliburton

I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing…

— Johnny Weir

If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as…

— Bobby Knight

“That’s why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal. What…

— Phil Jackson

I want people to not look at NBA players as basketball players who love wine. I want them to really look at…

— Channing Frye

I was the best basketball player, the only thing good in my hometown so everybody did everything for me.

— Stephen Jackson

I'm an old-school basketball player and an old-school coach.

— Mark Jackson

People forget that I'm human, that I have emotions. They just see me as a basketball player.

— A'ja Wilson

My whole childhood I grew up wanting to be a professional basketball player.

— Becky Hammon

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

— Dennis Rodman

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

— Warren Moon

I'm just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.

— Anthony Bennett

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

— John Amaechi

We knew he was a basketball player, but we saw him as our dad.

— Domantas Sabonis

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

— Josh Howard

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

— John Wooden

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

— Dirk Nowitzki

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

— Elvin Hayes

I always just take pride in being a basketball player.

— Paul George

At the end of the day, you're a person before you are a basketball player.

— Harrison Barnes

I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

— Jabari Parker