Basketball Quotes · Page 82

I've been playing basketball my entire life, so I feel comfortable doing what is asked of me.

— Jahlil Okafor

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

— LeBron James

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

— Jimmer Fredette

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

— Dennis Rodman

High school was really fun. I had lots of friends, I had activities, like basketball teams.

— Choi Woo-shik

Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible.

— Jurgen Klopp

I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

— Al McGuire

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Basically, I played basketball for a small college out here in California and when I was done playing college, I settled down…

— Travis Browne

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every…

— Don Meyer

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach…

— John Calipari

When I was 13 years old, that's when my team assigned me - and I wound up living, like, six hundred kilometers…

— Jose Calderon

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things…

— Jeff Garlin

When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the…

— Bobby Knight

In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA…

— Blake Griffin

I think people have to realize that - and basketball fans do, Lakers fans do - that we have to operate under…

— Jeanie Buss

When I was younger, I'd get very empirical with myself. "I have a hypothesis about myself. I'll put myself in a situation,…

— Demetri Martin

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds…

— Og Mandino

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We…

— Tupac Shakur

“Everyone who loves pro basketball assumes it's a little fixed. We all think the annual draft lottery is probably rigged, we all…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

Basketball is basketball. And whether it's male, or female, or has any other label attached to it... that really doesn't matter to…

— Bradley Beal

What's the reason I'm playing basketball? I do it because I love it, I do it because of my family, and that's…

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

— Oscar Robertson

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

When you feed the big dog, it does whatever you tell him to do.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.

— Kevin Durant

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

— Yao Ming

I was getting up in the morning and betting on Lithuanian under-20 basketball matches.

— Paul Merson

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

— Oscar Robertson

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

— Sue Bird

We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.

— John Wooden

I was huge on basketball and baseball. I love sports. I'm an L.A. guy. I love the Lakers and Dodgers.

— Collin Morikawa

The key to the fast break is every one running hard for their teammates.

— Paul Westhead

It's good to be able to focus on our job, our basketball and what we do.

— Joe Ingles

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

— Pat Summitt

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

— Kevin Durant

You know how I be. Last week Kobe couldn't do without me.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

— Dean Smith