Basketball Quote by Merlin Olsen Download Open image “It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.” — Merlin Olsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Basketball Football
When I started playing basketball, I hated it because football had always been my sport. — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
I enjoyed basketball and baseball too much to let football take over. — Justin Herbert Copy Share Image
I wanted to play both football and basketball until they made me select one over the other. — John Havlicek Copy Share Image
In all honesty, I was hoping to use football as a path to play basketball in college. — Ben Wallace Copy Share Image
I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go… — Luol Deng Copy Share Image
Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player. — Julius Peppers Copy Share Image
I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life. — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
I had a hockey puck and stick-the only ones in town. I definitely would have played hockey ahead of football, had it been available. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
Fight for time with your family. They grow so quickly, and they are gone. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
Sigma Chi was a learning experience for me in personal growth, in finding out more about myself, in shaping my life more effectively, and… — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were doing. — Merlin Olsen Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100% — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
It's similar to basketball: when you go to different gyms and win or lose, you learn something new. So when kids get out of… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach… — Adolph Rupp Copy Share Image
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas… — Darryl Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” quote by Shaquille O'Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/shaquille-o-neal-659_age_i-failed-i-think-seven-or-eight-times-be_2731.jpg)
