Basketball Quotes

AKA: QuotesNSayings.net

Famous Quotes and Sayings

• Authors
• Picture Quotes
• Proverbs
• Professions
• Nationalities
• About
• Contact

Popular Authors

• Neil Armstrong
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Gautama Buddha
• Thomas Jefferson
• Winston Churchill
• Roger Federer
• Socrates
• William Shakespeare
• Malcolm X
• Abraham Lincoln

• And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight – I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub – there were things that I liked about it.

  Julius Erving

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball

• Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

  Julius Erving

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball

• I am, first of all, a basketball player. I’ve done this for so very long… For me, it’s been essential to be successful on the court.

  Tony Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Essential

• I’m someone who always comes on the court no matter what’s going on in my life. It’s all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don’t let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what’s going on or what people are talking about.

  Kris Humphries

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Regardless, Basketball

• If you don’t like basketball and you’re from Kentucky, they’ll kick you out!

  Josh Hopkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kick, Basketball

• What I know is that if you’re going to play half-court, you’d better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That’s what I learned as a player.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Test, Team

• In every game, there’s three teams out there. There’s the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Teams

• About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped – and finding that you don’t have the ball in them – is a great little old leveler.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Moves

• I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.

  Tom Heinsohn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Depending

• I do something that I don’t think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn’t the announcer warm up?

  Chick Hearn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Basketball

• I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That’s when we did our term plays and did nutshell versions of Shakespeare for English classes. And, believe me, I got a fair amount of looks from the guys on the team. ‘You’re in theater but you can play football?’

  Dennis Haysbert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Versions

• It wasn’t about the X’s and the O’s and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

  Isiah Lord Thomas III

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Group, Grow

• I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5’9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

  Bridgette Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Forward, Basketball

• I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

  Pedro Martinez

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Understand, Basketball

• As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.

  Bob Knight

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball

• Dinner, basketball game, four guys – classic.

  Billy Bush

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball

• Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

  Frankie Muniz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Basketball

• It’s not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

  Sue Wicks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Hurt

• Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.

  Stu Jackson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Judgement

• Basketball isn’t as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

  Steve Nash

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basketball, Canada