Nba Basketball Sports Quotes

You do not want to make this guy mad. You see him sitting there all cool and calm, but underneath, he's thinking, he's plotting. I'm telling you, it's not normal. He's like Michael from 'The Godfather.' - Kevin Johnson on David Stern ~ R.E. Graswich

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away. ~ Art Rust, Jr.

My sons love LeBron more than they love me. I'm just a little jealous about it. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up. ~ Michael B. Jordan

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries. ~ Yao Ming

I like playing many other sports, such as basketball. ~ Guan Tianlang

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship. ~ Oscar Robertson

It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. ~ Andy Roddick

Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me. ~ Tim Duncan

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball. ~ St. Vincent

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus. ~ Geno Auriemma

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league. ~ Jerry West

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. ~ Dean Smith

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around."
"Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abn ~ Ray Bradbury

Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be. ~ John Wooden

The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited. ~ Ice Cube

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to. ~ Bear Bryant

We want you all to be in shape and look as good as me. Because I will be walking naked on the beach. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.' ~ Anna Quindlen

I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport. ~ Sue Wicks

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game ~ John Calipari

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.' ~ Shaquille O'Neal

When you work on getting better at something, don't do it half speed ~ Ray Allen

There has never been a great 'silent' defense ~ Del Harris

It was what made him good at team sports: soccer, basketball, politics. Miller ~ James S.A. Corey

The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically. ~ John Madden

The beautiful thing about the game of golf is you can play good golf and compete well into your later years, and you can't do this in basketball or football or baseball. But in golf, it's a longer live sport. ~ Tom Watson

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball. ~ Mark Teixeira

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it. ~ LeBron James

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball. ~ Lisa Leslie

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner. ~ Stephan James

Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound), and it seemed hard to believe that I had never understood this before. They rewarded effortlessness and unself-consciousness; they confirmed that yes, there are rankings of skill and value and that everyone knows what they are (seeing those guys who were subbed with two seconds left before the end of a quarter, I'd think how girls' coaches were never that heartless); they showed that the best things in the world to be were young and strong and fast. To play a great game of high school basketball-it was something I myself had never done, but I could tell-made you know what it was to be alive. How much in an adult life can compare to that? Granted, there are margaritas, or there's no homework, but there are also puffy white bagels under neon lights in the conference room, there's waiting for the plumber, making small talk with your boring neighbor. ~ Curtis Sittenfeld

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years. ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards. ~ Bill Walton

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity. ~ John Wooden

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through. ~ Pete Maravich

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building. ~ Dean Smith

I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era. ~ Allen Iverson

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work. ~ Bear Bryant

We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic. ~ Charles Barkley

That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary. ~ George Karl