Top 1200 Nba Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

The NBA is tough. Everybody plays hard and every game is vital.

The owners of the Premier League sides are like in the NBA, they're not millionaires, they're billionaires.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

I never had a doubt that I would make it to the NBA, even when I wasn't playing.

I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.

I think Damian Lillard is the best lyricist to be in the NBA or play basketball.

I just like chilling with my friends, playing 'NBA 2K' and stuff.

As a player, you always want to know what you can do. At the end of your career, you can look back and say, look, I was able to get this much out of my playing career and I was able to become this type of player. I think that's what allows you to sleep well at night.

I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly - but as well as I could - in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport.

This chip on my shoulder, this swagger and confidence, it helps me. If I didn't have it, I would not be in the NBA.

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

If you give a bad player time, he can play. If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

I am one of the last true centers in the NBA, and it's a title that I enjoy to hold.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

OK, my funniest tech I ever got in the NBA was for looking at a ref.

In the NBA, it's wins and losses. You don't have to deal with some of the hypocrisy of college athletics.

At some point, everyone who is playing, their dream is to be in the NBA, because that's where all the best players are.

He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.

These NBA seasons are such a grind; it really takes a toll on your body.

To sum it up, I would say that the Premier League is football's NBA.

I feel like most ex-NBA players don't embrace the team they played for.

I wasn't trying to make First Team All-NBA. I just wanted to win.

I'm in the NBA and I won a championship. I had some great things happen, but I'm not satisfied.

After I got to the NBA, I had one goal: stay in the league for a while.

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

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

The NFL, as compared to the NBA, it's so physical and so emotional almost every play.

Which player does not want to win? A player who doesn't want to win, it's better not to be with us.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

I've been working hard to be one of the focal points in the NBA, one of the top guys.

I don't know, scene stealing is something I see as, people look at it, it could be a positive thing, but I really like to think of myself as a team player. It's kind of like one player can make the other teammates better, kind of like Larry Byrd dishing off.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

I can't name a backup point guard better than me in the NBA.

The advent of so much dribbling has created a different kind of player, and it starts at a very early age. We have so many gifted ball handlers. Everything is pick-and-roll. Unless he's a catch-and-shoot guy, a player is going to put it on the floor and attack. Kevin Durant is a wonderful ball handler.

Every single player matters. Every single player can change the course of the game.

Dirk was obviously a player that I looked up to. In high school I actually wore No. 41 in honor of Dirk. He was the first player where I was like this guy is seven-feet tall and shooting jump shots and shooting threes, this is what I want to be like.

What I've always tried to do, whether it's the NBA or baseball or golf, is be charged with getting the color.

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

I wanted to be a part of the NBA because I enjoyed the Sixers games when I was young.

I feel like I'm dreaming. 10,000 points in the NBA. It's crazy.

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

If I make it in the NBA or wind up playing overseas, I will be at peace.

I'm an old-fashioned player, an old-school player who will foul you and foul you hard.

I'm an Arsenal player, and I want to remain an Arsenal player.

The NBA? Never in my wildest dreams when I was playing in Division III basketball.

You can't be a team player today and not a team player tomorrow.

I was a good athlete, a good baseball player. A great baseball player, I should say.

I'm a huge gamer and have been playing 'NBA Live' since 1995.

The bottom line is the NBA is going to do whatever they can do to create more revenue.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

I am a big NBA fan, where a lot of players play on physicality.

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I'm still trying to grow into that. But in the end, I want to be more Christian than baseball player.

In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.

I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.