Top 1200 Great Basketball Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

It's humbling to know that you have fans all over America and all over the world and they want you to play on their respective basketball team. It's very humbling that they respect the way I play the game of basketball. I can't discredit that. I can't say I don't enjoy it because you put in a lot of hard work to have fans. And for me to be a role model and for me to have fans all over is great. It's very humbling.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

I'm a basketball junkie. I watch basketball all the time.

Thanks to Coach Bennett for a great education in basketball and for making me better.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

I never want to say that I had glory days. I like to think that every new year there's something great that can happen, something great will happen, whether it's a basketball thing or an off-the-court thing.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

People talk about the Spurs and how we do a decent job at playing basketball. But there is a deeper meaning to who we are, where we come from, and at the same time, why we play basketball.

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.

I began sports as a Basketball player but got into lifting weights after a recurring ankle problem that stopped me from competing in basketball despite having surgeries.

My dad was a basketball coach, and so I went to his games. But baseball was the sport I could enjoy with him, whereas with basketball, I wasn't with him.

A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That's consistent with who I am. I don't pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.

I've always been a basketball player. My earliest memories are of playing basketball. I was born playing it. It's why I'm so comfortable on the floor.

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted to do something more.

I think Villanova is a really good basketball team and Jay Wright's a great coach.

Since I started playing basketball, I had goals. I was going to do everything step by step. I'm proving it, my basketball is getting better.

Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.

I felt that N.Y. is the mecca of basketball. The love that I have for basketball, I feel it here.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

In India, basketball is not that publicized whereas we have some great players in our country.

You've got to be on all-league teams before you can say that you are going to be a great basketball player.

I think in Toronto my job was to score just based on the system that we had. We played a lot of iso basketball - a lot of one-on-one basketball.

When I started playing basketball, it's about winning championships and being a great player.

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

Learning from different cultures and talking to people is such a great experience, and getting to use basketball to do that is special.

When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.

I look at basketball as like a storm. But it's the eye of the storm. The calmest place of it is to be right in the eye of it. And that's what basketball is for me; it's my eye. And while everything else around me is going on,' he continued, 'the destruction and things like that, basketball keeps me calm.

My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

The love of basketball, the time and effort I've put into it - I'd be doing a disservice to myself if I didn't see how far I could go in basketball before I tried to do anything in baseball.

Who knows, maybe I'll be a basketball player one day? No, I'm definitely never going to be a basketball player. I have no hand-eye coordination.

Basketball is basketball. I don't think people realize that. No matter what city, overseas, D-league, park league - I just want to play.

I mean, I miss basketball. I didn't get to play basketball as much as I may have wanted to, but yeah, I miss baseball for sure.

Basketball is just a game, and it's great. We're lucky to play it for our jobs.

One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

Basketball is basketball. You have to pass the ball, you have to score.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

It was almost an accident that I got into basketball at all but fortunately it wasn't too late and I was able to be a part of a great generation for the sport.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

Basketball has given me everything, but it has to be bigger than basketball. That was the first thing that I said to Under Armour, and they were behind it 100 percent. This isn't about a shoe deal.

If you like basketball, you enjoy watching good basketball. And if you don't like watching good basketball, go watch rowing.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

I just play basketball. That's me: all I know is basketball.

Going to Kentucky... it's not really a college experience. You go there for basketball. You get your studies together, but then after that, it's all about basketball.

Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

Chick Hearn taught me how to play basketball, how to think about basketball. He taught me how to love basketball.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.