Top 1200 Great Basketball Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

Being from Canada, we never had, like, the basketball games live on TV.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

The fans of New York are very knowledgeable about the game of basketball. They love their sports here.

Basketball in Latin America is growing a lot and it's being seen with the quantity of players in the NBA.

Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach – he was my mentor, my teacher, my second father. Coach was always there for me whenever I needed him and I loved him for it. In teaching me the game of basketball, he taught me about life. My heart goes out to Linnea and their kids. We've lost a great man who had an incredible impact on his players, his staff and the entire UNC family.

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

My uncle was almost hit by a sniper while dropping his son at basketball practice.

I think I'm one of the rare people out there who still cares about the game of basketball.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

I just gotta go out there and play basketball the way I know how to.

My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.

Those two months I didn't play didn't help me. But injuries are a part of basketball.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

I love playing basketball. And to be able to continue to play as a job, that's the best to me.

The chip comes from people saying I'm not good enough, or I can't score, or I'm not a real basketball player.

It is all about confidence: 90% mental and 10% physical, that is what basketball is. I live by that and it seems to be working.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

The most satisfying way to play basketball is when you can get the best out of everyone on the court.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

I would say moving to Iowa turned out to be the best thing for my basketball career.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

I know a lot of people say New York is the basketball mecca, but to me, it's Seattle.

This is what you do your routine for, so when playoff basketball comes, it helps you stay fresh, sharp, energized, strong - all that.

You can play basketball - if you're lucky - for about 10 years. So, you're going to have to have something to fall back on.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

I had attached my life to basketball so closely that it made me physically ill.

Wrestling, football, basketball, and baseball were the four things I was obsessed with as a kid.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

My mother chose 'Jordan' as my middle name, as a nod to her favorite basketball player.

I feel like a coach when I'm on the court. I just see basketball as a team sport.

Growing up, I didn't like basketball. I played football and baseball and ran some track.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

I played basketball, softball and lacrosse, also did gymnastics and danced for years.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'