Playing basketball Quotes · Page 5

Since I first started playing basketball, I have just loved it, and nothing has ever made me lose that love.

— Ashley Graham

It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.

— Charles Barkley

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

— Dean Smith

I leave everything in God's hands and continue to work on playing basketball.

— Stephen Jackson

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing…

— Chris Noth

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

— Jason Behr

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

— Joel Embiid

When it comes to playing basketball, I'm always last to be picked and in some cases never picked at all.

— Skeelo

I worked at the local YMCA for a little while. I was in the gym cleaning up and stuff. I think that…

— Breanna Stewart

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted…

— Enes Kanter

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I…

— Moses Malone

That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my…

— Dwight Howard

I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing…

— Metta World Peace

When I'm not playing basketball I could be doing a lot of things. Honestly, I could sit on the couch, kick my…

— Brittney Griner

When I was younger, pole vaulting was all that I knew. It was mainstream. It was so accessible to me and I…

— Armand Duplantis

I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But…

— Prince Fielder

I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being…

— Chris Bosh

I just don't want people to mistake playing basketball, playing hard with trying to hurt somebody.

— Marcus Morris

I love playing basketball, but the most important thing to me is my family.

— Ricky Rubio

It's fun to watch and fun to be a part of and I think that's what it's all about. You have to…

— Paul Millsap

Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.

— Vlade Divac

After I got done playing basketball, I needed a competitive outlet.

— Brian Shaw

You can't simulate playing basketball no matter how much working out you do.

— Danny Green

My city was very basketball-minded so I was born playing basketball and I didn't like playing soccer that much.

— Manu Ginobili

If I'm not playing basketball, I'm reading or thinking of stories I can create.

— Robin Lopez

I guess I enjoy my life. I'm in a very, very fortunate position and I enjoy playing basketball and I just enjoy…

— Joe Ingles

I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.

— Kim Gordon

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

— Pete Carril

When you see the kids playing basketball you see how big the sport is, you see how beautiful the sport is.

— Juancho Hernangomez

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.

— Rick Pitino

I had 30 years of playing basketball and I came through it unscathed.

— Robert Parish

I had always wanted to see Europe, and what better way to see it than to spend a year there playing basketball?

— Mike D'Antoni

My days shouldn't be hard because I'm doing what I'm doing and that's playing basketball.

— Derrick Rose

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

— O. J. Mayo

I left my home when I was 13 years old, I was a professional at 17, and I've been playing basketball since.

— Jose Calderon

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

— Bill Walton

I grew up in the woods; we were either on three-wheelers or four-wheelers or we were playing basketball.

— Becky Hammon

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

— Draymond Green

If you don't get cut up once in a while, you're playing basketball the wrong way.

— Fred VanVleet

You can do all of the conditioning that you want, it's not the same as playing basketball.

— De'Aaron Fox