Nba Player Quotes

I think it was wishful thinking of me to dream of being an NBA player. And once I made the NBA I dreamed of being an All-Star, but I never dreamed of being an MVP. ~ Steve Nash

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game. ~ Bill Walton

I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes. ~ Marcus Camby

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important. ~ Dwyane Wade

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. ~ Elgin Baylor

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! ~ Shaquille O'Neal

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player. ~ Tim Duncan

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity. ~ Brian J. White

There is an old Yiddish phrase I find apropos - but not by choice: "Man plans, God laughs." I am a prime example. My life was pretty much laid out for me. I was a basketball star my entire childhood, destined to be an NBA player for the Boston Celtics. But in my very first preseason game, Big Burt Wesson slammed into me and ruined my knee. I tried gamely to come back, but there is a big difference between gamely and effectively. My career was over before I hit the parquet floor. I ~ Harlan Coben

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. ~ Oscar Robertson

Goals determine what you're going to be. ~ Julius Erving

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout. ~ Frank Caliendo

Goals determine what you are going to be ~ Julius Erving

Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport. ~ Allan Houston

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it. ~ Jerry Stiller

You cant win unless you learn how to lose. ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Do your best when no one is looking. ~ Bob Cousy

Most players unfortunately go to the casinos with an attitude that makes it even easier for casinos to psyche them into losing. Most except to lose; therefore, it's not too surprising when they achieve their goal. ~ Henry Tamburin

A goalies job is to stop pucks, ... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is? ... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score ... That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling. ~ Ken Dryden

I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move. ~ Kenneth De Guzman

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way. ~ Ryan Guzman

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight. ~ Jonny Greenwood

Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that. ~ Manu Ginobili

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper. ~ Roger Federer

Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. ~ Robert Aris Willmott

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. ~ Geezer Butler

Today's baseball players are walking conglomerates. They have fantastic salaries, multiple investments, but we had one thing they don't have today, the train ride. We didn't always like it, but those rides kept us close as a team and as friends. Something you can't get on a two hour plane ride that used to take you fifteen hours on a train. ~ Duke Snider

I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~ Dave Barry

Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus. ~ Johan Cruijff

That's Jake Donovan? It figured he was a hockey player. They were her kryptonite. ~ Alley Ciz

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever. ~ John Salley

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player. ~ Nerlens Noel

If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference. ~ Arsene Wenger

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport. ~ Andre Agassi

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday. ~ Virat Kohli

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak. ~ Paul Gascoigne

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid. ~ Al Pacino

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat. ~ Bear Bryant

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching. ~ Rory McIlroy

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you. ~ Bear Bryant

David drives back to Björnstad. Sits in the car and cries in anger. He is ashamed. He is disgusted. With himself. For an entire hockey life he has trained a boy, loved him like a son, been loved back as a father. There is no player as loyal as Benji. No bigger heart than his. How many times has David hugged number sixteen after a game and told him that? "You are the bravest bastard I know, Benji." The bravest bastard I know. " And after all those hours in locker rooms, all those nights in the bus, all the conversations and blood, sweat and tears, the boy didn't dare tell his coach his greatest secret. It's a betrayal, David knows it's a terrible betrayal. There is no other way to explain how much a grown man must have failed for such a warrior of a boy to make him think his coach would be less proud of him if he was gay. David hates himself for not being better than his father. For that is a son's job. ~ Fredrik Backman

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out. ~ Jose Mourinho

Jim Fregosi was not only one of the most respected men in baseball, he was a great man. He was a player's manager. He had that special gift as a manager that made you want to get to the field and play your ass off for him. Jim Fregosi was the reason that 1993 was one of the most exciting years in Philadelphia sports history. ~ Lenny Dykstra

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now. ~ LeBron James

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game ~ Will Durant

I coach hockey players - some of them just happen to be girls. When I'm coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can't tell the difference. They are just playing hockey. ~ Natalie Darwitz

I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense. ~ Elvis Costello

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. ~ Nate Ruess

I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me. ~ Shaquille O'Neal

MGM produced an occasional nonstar feature, although these were rare and usually had some obvious hook to draw audiences. A good example of this type of feature was The Fire Brigade, a 1926 project scheduled for a twenty-eight-day shoot and budgeted at $249,556. The picture starred May McAvoy, a "featured player" at MGM, and was directed by William Nigh. The second-class status of the project was obvious from the budget, with only $60,000 going for director, cast, story, and continuity. But the attractions in The Fire Brigade were spectacle, special effects, and fiery destruction rather than star and director. The budget allowed $25,000 for photographic effects and another $66,000 for sets, a relatively high figure since many of the sets for the picture had to be not only built and "dressed" but destroyed as well. ~ Thomas Schatz

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player. ~ George W. Bush

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money. ~ Anthony Holden

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do." ~ Chick Hearn

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people ~ John Wooden

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. ~ Anatoly Karpov

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything. ~ Jessica Pare

Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player. ~ Johnny Hunt

If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job. ~ Al McGuire

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order. ~ Common

Fitness of a top-class squash player is very important, and talent only can't do the job. They have to get training regularly for at least eight hours a day so that they could put some good show in a two-hour match. ~ Jahangir Khan

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about. ~ Roberta Williams

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable. ~ Brian Urlacher