Top 1200 Nba Championships Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

I want to play 11, 12 years right here and then retire - and win us some national championships, and be the Michael Jordan of Charlotte. This is the place that drafted me, that paid me. This is the place I should be loyal to.

With all the pick-and-rolls in the NBA, getting in the lane and shooting floaters or pull-ups will help a lot.

The biggest thing was just getting comfortable out there in front of all the people and just the whole major setting and how difficult major championships are, how patient... you have to be.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

That was the lowest point in my entire life: The shellshock of not being in the NBA. All my peers are playing and I'm not because of boneheaded mistakes.

It's not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.

The thing about the NBA, any pro sport, is, guys don't know how to take care of their body.

Ultimately, it was always my dream to be here in the NBA. I just took it serious. I knew if I put in the work I could eventually get here.

The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

You do feel a level of excitement because winning in the NBA is really hard as it relates to one game, but to win a series, you have to enjoy that.

As soon as I got in the NBA, I was thinking about it - wanting to use my influence and resources to help different communities.

I'm not naive - I think it's rare in the NBA every day to actually be able to enjoy being around the people you're working with.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Trades happen in the NBA. I've had a lot of teammates in my six years, so I know kind of how it works.

I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.

My dream was always to be in the NBA. I just happened to be better at tennis in high school. But I loved basketball, that's why I stuck with it.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

I don't watch any NBA games today, because it makes me sad: I want to be back out there.

I wanted to take advantage of my platform as an NBA player to bring smiles, and also to raise money for social causes.

I've turned down several assistant jobs in the NBA that I just didn't feel good about. I would love it at UNLV.

Since I've been in the NBA, I've played for four different people. I don't know how much more you can go.

There were times I didn't know if I even belonged in the NBA. Everyone at this level is so good - bigger, stronger, faster.

What really pushed me into chasing basketball even more was my cousin making the NBA too, in 2003.

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

There's no greater feeling, I would imagine, than winning a national championship in that one year and then hopefully going to the NBA.

I don't think I was a good enough coach to help an NBA team win a game when I first got to that league.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

I've had a lot of coaches at my high school and at Stanford and in the NBA who helped me. Bill Cartwright comes to mind.

I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.

We know the WNBA is not making billions of dollars like the NBA, but we want to be in a place where we don't have to play basketball all year round.

Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.

My team at Pittsburgh is the greatest example of unselfishness and giving of oneself. They bought into that, and it's brought those kids championships, and it's brought all those kids so much glory.

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

The Single Mothers Program is something I would love to start if I'm fortunate enough to make it to the NBA and things like that.

Sometimes in the NBA, the schedule gets to be a lot with all these events, busses, planes and games. But once that's gone, you miss it so bad.

Just seeing the progression, the evolution of the NBA game, I feel like you have a lot of big men shooting 3s.

The way the NBA is going forward with versatility and everybody being able to play multiple positions, I'll fit right in.

I've been on record many times in the past about the challenge of being competitive with NBA teams in smaller markets.

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

I've been a bit surprised, and encouraged, by the NBA's support for athletes that speak out. Compared to the NFL, it's night and day.

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

My best memories are because I was on teams I love - even going back to being a kid. Not just in the NBA.

I'm impressed with how the NBA, as a whole, is dressing so well. Guys are being very creative and having fun with it.

A lot of people kind of... conform. I don't want it to sound like I'm saying don't care about championships. That's not my point. But what I'm saying is a lot of people give in to the pressure of, 'I didn't have this; I didn't have rings.'

People think I play hard. It's just me wanting to be in the NBA and trying to prove every game that I should be here.

A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

I started out thinking I was going to play in the NBA; now I travel the world as a WWE Superstar. Life changes.

All time faves would be 'Smash TV,' 'NHL Hockey,' 'Grand Theft Autos,' 'NBA Lives,' 'Sonic.'

Tomboy. Alright, call me a tomboy. Tomboys get medals. Tomboys win championships. Tomboys can fly. Oh. And tomboys aren't boys.

The Warriors getting Kevin Durant, yes you won championships, which I guess is all that matters, I think at the end, and I'm just saying this as someone from the outside, it almost looks like it diminishes everything that was accomplished before him. It takes the allure of the Warriors away.

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.

Getting to the NBA really helped me personally on a lot of levels. I liked it so much that I wanted to stay there.

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far removed.

It took a lot of work to go from the 'Not Top 10' to being selected for the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

I've had a lot of struggles in the NBA, so to have some type of success, it just feels good, and makes you want more.