Good basketball Quotes

Rondo is a very good basketball player - really good.

— Mike D'Antoni

I was good at basketball, but I was uncomfortable.

— Trinity Rodman

I just like watching good basketball being played.

— Andrew Wiggins

You play with your soul as well as your body.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I did pursue to be a good basketball player.

— Christian Laettner

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

— Bobby Knight

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

— John Brady

One man cannot make a team.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they're afraid they might get hit by a pass.

— George Raveling

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

— Don Meyer

A lot of guys who can play really good basketball can drop 40 on you, and it's the same thing with LeBron.

— Bojan Bogdanovic

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

— Brad Stevens

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

— Don Meyer

I think Villanova is a really good basketball team and Jay Wright's a great coach.

— Jay Williams

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

— Bobby Knight

The two ingredients in success in basketball are playing hard and playing intelligently.

— Pete Carril

If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing.

— Diana Taurasi

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your…

— Bob Cousy

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork…

— Bill Goldberg

There are a lot of great athletes on the PGA Tour and a lot of good basketball players. But I can definitely…

— Tony Finau

In all the research you do as a coach, studying other coaches and championship-type situations, you find that all those teams combined…

— Pat Riley

JC was good for me. I had a coach who kept me into things and thinking positive. It was good basketball, but…

— Larry Johnson

Sport has been so good to me. The amount of basketball I've played over my lifetime, ran track, played football, played organized…

— Doug Burgum

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a…

— P.K. Subban

I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these…

— Barack Obama

I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my…

— Bill Russell

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What…

— Gilbert Arenas

The way I've always approached it is if we're winning and people want to talk about me, it's fine. If we're losing,…

— Al Horford

Would I have been a great basketball player? No. But I think I would've been a good basketball player, one of those…

— Tony Gonzalez

Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him…

— Sam Cassell

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

I'm really good at basketball.

— Bobby Wagner

Do your best when no one is looking.

— Bob Cousy

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

— Don Meyer

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

— Don Meyer

We win because we play together as a team.

— John Havlicek

It's not how big you are, it's how big you play

— John Wooden

There is no such thing as life in-between.

— Pat Riley

It's good for basketball to grow.

— Vlade Divac

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

— James Naismith