Best Basketball Player Sayings
72 Basketball Player quotes by 60 unique authors
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym,…
— Jason Kidd
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Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran…
— Jay Leno
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You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed…
— Jeremy Lin
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I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.
— Ryan Lochte
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little…
— Eddie Murphy
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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most…
— Hakeem Olajuwon
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Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.
— Haley Joel Osment
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Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
— Lee Trevino
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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 who I am…
— Johnny Weir
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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
— John Wooden
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A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of…
— Tiger Woods
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Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion.…
— Alwin Nikolais
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I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.
— Harvey Mason, Jr.
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I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
— Dirk Nowitzki
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I was pretty much seen as a basketball player coming out of high school. Football was my second love, but luckily, I turned out to…
— Justin Tuck
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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four…
— Hannah Storm
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Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran…
— Jay Leno
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What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
— John Wooden
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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
— Isiah Thomas
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You're a soccer player, not a basketball player. I was supposed to be your goal, not your rebound.
— Unknown Author
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Here's one to point DJ out. The great guy I met forever. The one who I messaged when I was hyper since we were both…
— Amber Hope
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