Top 146 Dunk Quotes & Sayings

When you can't dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news.

I don't dunk anymore.

I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

I would like to dunk on Shaq.

I just got addicted to getting better. My coach gave me a goal to get a tip dunk in a game - you know, a putback dunk off a rebound. I had never done that. He told me that he'd get me a pair of new shoes if I did it. I just kept trying. I couldn't get it, couldn't get it, couldn't get it. It took me a year or so. Finally, one game, I got it.

Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."

I like the Slam Dunk contest when it's good.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

I couldn't shoot and I couldn't score in high school. All I could do is dunk and play defense.

A dunk is nice because it can create momentum, but it's not as good as scoring a touchdown.

Not being in the dunk contest isn't going to stop me from dunking.

Guys like to dunk on me. It's always been that way. I'm 7-6, and guys want to dunk on the 7-6 guy.

I'll never be in a dunk contest again. I don't ever want to be a part of it.

It's extremely difficult to dink and dunk all the way down the field. Defenses are just too good.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

A slam dunk or a breakdance move is limited by what the physical body can do. Now, a skateboard is limitless by design, by not only the dynamic of the board and the way it goes but also what you build to skate on. Basically it's like a slam dunk contest that will progress every for the life of the sport. Five years from now there are going to be kids doing stuff that we didn't think was possible.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk

I don't wanna be labeled as just a defensive player or a rim protector or someone who can dunk. I feel like I can do everything.

It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they could be down 30 points but that's what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.

When I was younger, I used to dunk and they criticized me for the dunk. They said I couldn't be an All-Star because I dunked too much. So in order to get the respect from the people, I felt like I had to change my game.

I'm not really a flashy dunker or a show dunker unless somebody's in front of me. That's the only time I really get wide-eyed: when I can dunk on somebody. If it's a wide-open dunk, I've never been the type to dunk it real hard wide-open and scream.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

I was known for a lot of dunks, but my first big dunk really came here in New York. I had some others back then, but my first major dunk came against the Knicks and Kenny 'Sky' Walker. So, you know, New York has a lot of meaning to me.

It's a slam-dunk case!

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

I don't always have to dunk the ball.

Can I still dunk... Are you stupid?

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

I can jump high; I can dunk - nobody really believes that I can.

The best part is if you dunk on someone at home and they show it on the replay!

I've always been able to dunk a little bit; I'm a big basketball guy.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

As a rookie, I was a pick-and-roll player. I was an energy guy who could dunk, block shots, rebound.

It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.

I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.

It's kind of fun raising some eyebrows when all of a sudden you jump up and you get a tip-dunk or you dunk on Jabari Parker and everyone's like, 'Where did that come from?'

I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.

Those plays are winning plays, getting those blocks. Somebody's trying to dunk the ball and you get a block and that's demoralizing for the guy that tried to dunk the basketball.

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.

I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.

Jews don't dunk. It's in the bible.

Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

I can't afford to do the highlight dunk and miss it because, if I do that, I'll be sitting right on the bench beside the coaches.

Stevie Wonder used to come the ball games and they would have a guy sitting with him. And the guy would be holding on to his arm, telling him what's going on, and he would say, "Hey, the big chocolate guy just put down a thunder dunk. The chocolate guy with another monster dunk." And Stevie Wonder actually gave me the nickname Chocolate Thunder.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.