As basketball players, we're competitive. No matter if it's the preseason or not, I feel like players wanna win. — Domantas Sabonis Copy Share Image
My older brothers were both basketball players so I just grew up around the gym. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
I hope they'll say I was one of the hardest-working basketball players on both ends of the floor. — Gary Payton Copy Share Image
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right… — Patrick Beverley Copy Share Image
A lot of basketball players have tendinitis. It's known as jumper's knee, and it just comes from all the pounding our knees… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
I just want to compete with the best basketball players. And I think I can compete. — Juancho Hernangomez Copy Share Image
I do play with a chip on my shoulder. That's who I am. That's how Philadelphia basketball players are raised. — Kyle Lowry Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players. — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You know how you see Chris Brown and all these guys playing basketball? Chris Brown is actually not bad so I feel… — Jrue Holiday Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were… — Ben Silbermann Copy Share Image
I always stress condition with my basketball players. I don’t mean physical condition only. You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Some guys are just great basketball players and they have the knack for scoring, so people just allow them to get by… — Ben Wallace Copy Share Image
We're not only basketball players, we're human. We have to fill out our census, we have to register to vote. We have… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At… — Joel Embiid Copy Share Image
I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
[When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different… — Dwight Howard Copy Share Image
The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You can knock me all you want, but professional basketball players are an elite group and I've been doing it 12 years. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever. — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
I'm not just here to get a paycheck and leave. I'm here to be one of the greatest basketball players to ever… — Jamal Murray Copy Share Image
I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life. — Juliana Harkavy Copy Share Image
Sam Jones and I, neither one of us were point guards, but we played the backcourt a lot together because we were… — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful. — Warren Moon Copy Share Image
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
My shoe has been going through evolution, and we having great feedback from the 1 to the 2 and the 2.5's, so… — Paul George Copy Share Image
3 good things about us basketball players 1) we are good with our hands 2) we score more than once 3) we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to say I do some pretty good impressions. I'm also one of the best basketball players in the world.… — Lamorne Morris Copy Share Image
We come from an environment that has been created in our industry that's a 'yes' environment. Due to that environment, it has… — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball… — Ken Griffey Jr Copy Share Image
I just love being with the kids, I know when I was a kid and I had basketball players come over and… — Domantas Sabonis Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the Ramones were greasers. We were Fonzie with longer hair. The greasers and gangs in Brooklyn all wore Chuck… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The reality is, like, women's basketball players are playing against women. And we're all in the same boat the same way men's… — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
![“[When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people want to talk badly about you when you're down, or kick you when you're down. As basketball players, people think everybody's ultra-confident. But that's not the case.” quote by Blake Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b26/blake-griffin-2773_ball-player_when-i-was-young-and-i-listened-to-every_2446524.jpg)
![“The great thing about [Michael] Jordan was that he made them want it just like he wanted it. And a lot of times like a lot of the basketball players, not to be getting on basketball, but, with a lot of the basketball players you might have one superstar on the team, and they're not willing to play…” quote by Ginuwine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/ginuwine-2313_ball-player_the-great-thing-about-michael-jordan-was_874053.jpg)
