Basketball Quotes · Page 81

They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the…

— Red Auerbach

I don't see myself not playing basketball. I don't see myself not around basketball.

— Willie Cauley-Stein

I just play basketball. I'm athletic. Skinny but strong, tall but quick.

— Chamique Holdsclaw

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

— Shaquille O'Neal

This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually…

— Wilt Chamberlain

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

— Pat Summitt

I might do a hobby or go to the movies, but everything comes back to basketball.

— Brandon Ingram

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night…

— Tim McGraw

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

— Kevin Durant

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and…

— Tom Watson

I have definitely improved as a player and a personMy family and I have had a really unique experience because of this…

— Brandon Jennings

I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just…

— Kenny Smith

I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because…

— Walter Dean Myers

There's no other player that's playing basketball on this earth that has accomplished some of the things I've accomplished, and it's all…

— Stephon Marbury

I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years…

— Shaquille O'Neal

Set the basketball on the kitchen table. Open a cupboard, get out a bottle of sesame seeds, and place a single seed…

— William Ashworth

[When] I was young and I listened to everything - I took everything to heart. I didn't really realize how much people…

— Blake Griffin

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put…

— Don Meyer

My mom has always said that you have to do other things besides going to school, other extracurricular activities, so she made…

— Cheryl Burke

I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and…

— Stephon Marbury

In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out…

— Derrick Rose

In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's…

— Frank Deford

The thing that you don't understand about college basketball until you're one or two seasons in - and something I've struggled with…

— Grayson Allen

I've been good at the game of basketball my whole life, so I'm hoping I can get back to that.

— Lonzo Ball

I have seen about every side of professional basketball.

— John Havlicek

I just go and play basketball. All the media stuff, it's about looking forward to playing the game I love.

— RJ Barrett

Basketball - you don't get hit in basketball. That's a nice life over there.

— Bobby Wagner

When I was playing basketball, players weren't thinking about themselves as being a brand.

— Rex Chapman

Unless you plan to out-rebound and out-shoot everyone you play, then you better learn to handle the ball.

— Henry Iba

I'm very good at watching basketball and wearing basketball shoes.

— Trip Lee

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

— Mike Krzyzewski

Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.

— Red Auerbach

Playing basketball is second nature to me; acting I found far more challenging.

— Stephon Marbury

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

— Kobe Bryant

The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.

— Dean Smith

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

— John Edgar Wideman

It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering.

— Bill Laimbeer

I think Basketball Without Borders is huge just because of the platform that basketball is.

— Harrison Barnes

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

— Al McGuire