NBA Quotes · Page 36

I watched the NBA a lot growing up. I was a big fan, especially of the Bulls in the early 90s.

— Manu Ginobili

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first…

— Tracy McGrady

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

— Mark E. Hyman

Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive.

— Charles Barkley

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as…

— Hubie Brown

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

— Woody Allen

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

— Terry Stotts

I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.

— Jalen Brunson

I didn’t fall in love with it just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it because I’ve got…

— Kevin Durant

In the NBA they've taken away so much of the hand-checking and the physicality of how guys are able to guard you.…

— Lou Williams

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke…

— Shaquille O'Neal

NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative…

— Sonny Vaccaro

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase…

— Julius Erving

You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at…

— Michael Jordan

Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very…

— Laura Dern

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We’re all a work in progress…

— Kevin Durant

If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA…

— Donovan Mitchell

Even if I'm the worst player in the NBA, I'm one of the best players in the world.

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

— Shaquille O'Neal

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

— Dean Smith

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

— Kevin Johnson

George Karl's son probably wouldn't have made it to the NBA if he wasn't a coach. He would have never got the…

— Stephen Jackson

I like the NBA and I always see how the players turn up to play-off games.

— Vinicius Junior

I just want to say, 'Nice job,' but now let the professional take over. There can only be one me. Uno más…

— Shaquille O'Neal

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

— John Calipari

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a…

— Bear Bryant

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

— Doc Rivers

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

— Kevin Durant

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove…

— Tony Parker

It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

— Chuck Daly

I think, overall, the NBA and its players are really conscious about our role and what we do as role models.

— Baron Davis

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

— Vlade Divac

I felt like we would have definitely won an NBA championship if everyone was healthy.

— Kyrie Irving

When Durant was in college, I predicted on 'First Take' he would lead the NBA in scoring and began calling him my…

— Skip Bayless

I'm a huge NBA fan and watch many games each year. Following any sport is kind of bringing us back to our…

— John Mackey

You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.

— Kobe Bryant

There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

— Shaquille O'Neal

NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on…

— Xi Jinping

I'm pretty sure everybody in the NBA wants to make the playoffs. Every player, every coach, every organization wants to make the…

— Tim Hardaway Jr