Basketball Quotes · Page 84

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

— Manu Ginobili

The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly.

— Michael Waltrip

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

— Jim Calhoun

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

— Peyton Manning

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

— Oscar Robertson

Hoes Be Like I want a love & basketball relationship -_- bitch do you hoop?

— EmmaBaby

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

— Dean Smith

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that…

— Holly Johnson

I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful…

— Dick Van Arsdale

All-time favorite workout is basketball. It's very hard to do basketball training, though, but it's my favorite.

— Elsa Hosk

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

— Roland Lazenby

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

— John Leonard

We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win…

— Melissa Rauch

“Get it together, I told myself.  This isn’t life or death. It’s just college basketball. Nobody was going to die from what…

— Mara Jacobs

Its part of my game, getting to the free-throw line and being aggressive. If you say that I get superstar calls or…

— Kevin Durant

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'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while…

— Jennifer Lopez

“Want to go upstairs and play ball?" "Now, you're talking. Naked basketball. Always my favorite." "Loser gets fucked first." "Jesus, Thursday, every…

— Mercy Celeste

It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to…

— Charles Barkley

I follow tennis, and I actually went to Wimbledon during the summer, and it was nice to get a day off during…

— Ashley Young

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

We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to…

— Masai Ujiri

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

— Mike Krzyzewski

I miss playing basketball and the city of Portland and the Rose Garden.

— LaMarcus Aldridge

I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

In terms of the grand scheme of life, life is so much bigger than basketball.

— Kelsey Plum

The best competition I have is against myself to become better

— John Wooden

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

— Michael Douglas

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

— Wilt Chamberlain

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

— Kobe Bryant

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

— Carmelo Anthony

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

— Gregg Popovich

I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.

— Toni Kukoc

Basketball is therapeutic for a lot of us. We all love, live and breathe basketball.

— Quinn Cook

That's the key to our team. We have so many weapons. You can just pick your poison.

— Steve Nash

Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.

— Dennis Rodman

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

— Bobby Knight

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

— LeBron James