Best Basketball Sayings
2577 Basketball quotes by 676 unique authors
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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
— Kobe Bryant
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge…
— Kobe Bryant
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If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
— Kobe Bryant
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People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.
— Kobe Bryant
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I draw from the crowd a lot.
— Kobe Bryant
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I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
— Kobe Bryant
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In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can…
— Kobe Bryant
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
— Warren Buffett
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they…
— Barbara Bush
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million…
— Adam Carolla
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player…
— Benjamin Carson
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
— Muhammad Ali
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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