Top 1200 Nba Player Quotes & Sayings

Even if I'm the worst player in the NBA, I'm one of the best players in the world.

I'm the best player in the NBA.

It's a new NBA, man. Guys are playing on a new team every year now, and it has nothing to do with how good of a player you are, it's just how the NBA is.

Obviously I'm an NBA player, I want to play basketball.

Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.

NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative contract. Even the player's union is on board. There are only 450 jobs in the NBA, and the one-and-done protects veterans' jobs.

I think it's hard to compare the NBA and the WNBA, but the thing about the NBA is they just have a ton of movement every year, but the WNBA doesn't. Free agency is not set up that way; the money is obviously not set up that way, so when one player moves, it could set the stage for, literally, like, six or seven years.

Growing up, people will tell you that you have a better chance to become an astronaut than becoming an NBA player. So when you finally get to the NBA, you've beat the odds. So when you put on that jersey, everything else is downhill.

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.

Actually when I was overseas I didn't watch any NBA. I was like, 'Forget the NBA,' and this and that. 'Cause I was hurt that I wasn't on an NBA team. I kind of was rebellious when it came to that because I was kind of jealous and envious that I wasn't on an NBA team, so I kind of just focused on my game and focused on overseas.

I think video games have been instrumental to me as an NBA player.

To be a great player or a good player in the NBA, I have to work on my perimeter game.

I am honored to be the first international player featured on the cover of 'NBA 2K19.'

I experienced the G League in two forms: one as an assignment player, and then one of actually being in the G League after I got cut by the Bulls. Obviously, both situations are different. You actually sort of still get treated like an NBA player when you're on assignment. When you're in G League on contract, you're down there for real.

I always wanted to be an NBA player, and despite what anybody said, I was going to get to that point.

Obviously in the NBA, winning is everything; every NBA player will tell you when you are in a winning situation that's what this league is about. That one year in Phoenix when we went to the Western Conference finals was amazing; Portland when we got to the second round was a great year.

If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.

At first, I was thinking about just getting to the NBA, just watching the NBA, being one of the All-Stars in the NBA.

As an NBA player you want to help your team win at any cost, that's my main goal.

I never really talked about being an NBA player or a college player. I just really like playing basketball.

It's a blessing to be an NBA player and to be in a position to help other people.

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player.

I always felt that I had to leave a legacy on the African continent. As I was only the third player to come to the NBA from Africa, I felt I had to do my best to recruit more young Africans to come and play in the NBA - and also find a way to bring the NBA to Africa.

You can ask all the best players in the NBA - there's not one player in the NBA that guards them like me.

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

Even before I made my high school team, I'd say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, 'Get out of here, you ain't going to be a NBA player. You don't even play basketball.'

I remember as a young player I had this dream of playing in the NBA.

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.

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.

Most of the power forwards in the NBA are 6'10', 6'11', making it difficult for a player at 6'7', 6'8' to the play the position.

What's being considered now is solidifying my place in the NBA. Keep focusing on the grass roots, because I want the next guys to be good. Right now, all I'm doing for camps and academies and stuff, I'm just finding the next NBA player.

My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the game and was successful. That inspired the NBA to invest more and do more for the game of basketball. We're building academies not just in China, but in India, Africa, Europe and South America as well.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

I feel like I should be an NBA player.

I always tried to be an all-around player. In college, I felt like I needed to add to my game to get to another level, to get to the NBA. The NBA has really turned to positionless basketball, so it was very important to me to have an all-around game so I could stand out in front of other guys.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

Kevin Durant, to me in my personal opinion, is the best player in the NBA.

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That's what I'm focusing on each and every day.

Maybe two or three years will be enough for me to grow into a good NBA player.

Money-wise, I was probably the best player in Europe. It was safe where I was in Italy. But I wanted to play in the NBA to see if I could.

I know that three months before the season is not enough to become a good NBA player, but it's a start.

My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

It's tough at first. You realize in the NBA, it's not easy. Each and every night, you're playing against that player that was the best high school player, that player that was the best player on his college team.

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

Being a great high school player is one thing, but being a great NBA player is another.

The NBA has never drafted a player for defense. At any position, even at center.

It's an exciting prospect playing in the NBA, one that every player wants. When you are little you dream about it.

You're more apt to criticize an NBA player than you are a college players. Some of these guys are freshmen. They are learning the game. The other guys have taken it to the biggest stage there is. That's the NBA. So they are going to get more heat if they don't perform.

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

I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

I mean, I was always hoping to play in the NBA. Of course, when that thing happened, you're like, 'Finally, I did it, but the work starts now.' I didn't want to just be known as OK, I came to the NBA, and then in a few years, you're gone. First my goal was to be the best Slovenian player in the league. Of course, after that, your appetite goes up.

Well, like every kid playing basketball, I dreamed of being an NBA player.

Inch for inch, the 6-foot-3 Westbrook is the NBA's most sensationally talented player, a relentlessly explosive basket-attacker with a deadly pull-up jumper - a top-10 NBA player by any big-picture statistical measure from Player Efficiency Rating to Win Shares.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

I'm addicted to showing people what they don't get to see, as far as the everyday lifestyle of an NBA player.

My dream was to be an NBA player.

I have known Marbury since he was in seventh grade, and I have always felt he is a hell of an NBA player.