Basketball Quotes · Page 57

Who doesn't love scoring the basketball? That's kind of the name of the game.

— Robin Lopez

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

— Peter Billingsley

One part of being a leader on a basketball team is you have to be there for yourself and others.

— Jermaine O'Neal

I play basketball every single day in the offseason. I also lift weights and swim.

— Aaron Gordon

I think everybody in this league knows I can put up 20 and 10 in basketball games.

— Christian Wood

I played basketball, softball and lacrosse, also did gymnastics and danced for years.

— Mandy Rose

I always had my basketball. So when I showed up at the playground, everybody knew what I wanted to do.

— Baron Davis

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

— Charles Barkley

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school into college in the…

— Tom Watson

Yeah. When I was in high school I used to do stupid video edits. I would hook-up two VCRs or three VCRs…

— Jesse Lacey

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

— Bob Cousy

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.

— Stephen Curry

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this…

— LeBron James

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even…

— Denny Crum

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts…

— Julius Erving

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized…

— Carmelo Anthony

I wanted to be like Juwan Howard, whose basketball camp I went to as kid for six years. Those camps meant everything…

— Jabari Parker

When you have 20,000 people yelling and screaming at you, four other guys can concentrate on the floor. So every time I…

— Reggie Miller

On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him.…

— Christine Feehan

“The gunshots became louder after Joey died. Isaac’s been hearing them on the southeast side for years, but before Joey was murdered…

— Daniel Abbott

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central…

— Michael Arrington

If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I'd shower and go right back to the…

— Bad Bunny

I feel so fortunate to have great coaching. Coaches that have taught me great habits and taught me great things about basketball…

— J. J. Redick

“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made…

— Michael Lewis

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.

— Dominique Wilkins

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

— Bear Bryant

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

— Morgan Wootten

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

— Joe Torre

Basketball without Borders made me who I am and it's just something that is such a huge part of my life.

— Masai Ujiri

As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.

— Tony Robbins

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

— Greg Behrendt

Music and physical activity goes hand in hand. Music and basketball, man.

— Prodigy

Basketball is life, make goals for yourself then you can succeed! No matter what!

— Derrick Rose

When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots.

— Oscar Robertson

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

— Jason Kidd

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point.

— Stephen Curry

I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.

— Allen Iverson

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

— Doug Collins

U.S.A. and the NBA are two different brands of basketball.

— Bradley Beal

Basketball isn't one-on-one. It's five-on-five, plus the bench.

— Ricky Rubio