Top 818 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Basketball Players - Page 14

Life is not "either or," it's "both and"

I still have my quickness, but I turn it on and off. I don't want to fail in anything I do and that's why I'm hard on myself.

I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

I've always liked the competitive games. It's hard for me to play games that are just kind of casual. It gives me another outlet for competition, and that's what 'Fortnite' does.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

You've got to love the game and the game will love you back.

Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

I go to sleep every single night thinking I'm not good enough. I really do. I don't know if that's healthy or not. But I really do have a fear of not being good, and I don't like that.

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

People really don't care, in some ways, that you have a family. With a high profile job like I have, they just want you to win basketball games. You can do that and still keep your family together. I try the best I can to be at the basketball practices or tennis practices or recitals. In my first year at Dallas my (then 11-year old) son Avery Jr., said, "You know daddy, you're still the best coach in the NBA." I was like, "But I haven't won a playoff game yet." And he said, "That's okay. You're still my daddy." That makes you feel good.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

I'm the best shooter in the league.

We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

Nothing was ever easy in Memphis and I think that's why the fans were drawn to our team so much. It's because the way we played and the way we got overlooked and the respect that we didn't get most of the time was very similar to how the city felt and how the locals felt about life in general. It was an easy bond.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

I got the nickname in the preseason of my rookie season. I was playing for the Suns at the (Great Western) Forum. I got a block or a steal or a dunk and (TNT broadcaster) Kenny Smith went crazy. He called me 'The Matrix.' Who wouldn't like it? Players go through their whole career without having a nickname.

I haven't really reached my peak yet.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

I like shoes. Always liked shoes. Wanted to be a shoe designer or somebody who made shoes, something in shoes.

Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

Defense wins championships. I love being viewed as that guy.

Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing moves hither and thither.

I know where my weaknesses are. I am not as athletic as other point guards in the league. I can't dunk over people. Maybe I'm not a good shooter, or whatever they say. But I know my strengths and that is helping my team to win by knowing exactly every moment what to do.

Interchangeability and versatility unlocks so many styles of play for your team. It's not the end all be all, but it helps you handle adversity so much better. It presents so many different matchup problems for the other team because they have to worry about so many different things. You can have long and athletic guys but if they're dummies then you're in trouble. What the Warriors have is amazing versatility, but also versatility in their basketball IQ.

O love, please give me a passionate red recycling bin. I will put my desire in it. I don't ever want to throw love away.

When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.

Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

I'm very critical of myself.

The great thing about basketball is it's a live ball. If someone's in your way, push them out of the way, go around them or over them, whatever it takes.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

I'm honored and humbled to be named the Seasonlong NBA Community Assist Award winner.

To be one of the special ones, you've got to want to take that shot-you've also got to be willing to fail, learn from it, come back and take that shot again.

The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'

On a typical gameday I eat pasta, salad and drink lots of water.

We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.