Top 1200 Nba Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I have a lot of players I like to see. For example, in my first few years, the player I think is the one everyone liked and always will like is Ronaldinho. For me, he is the player with the capacity to take you and put you in front of the TV, and you will stay for hours. For hours!

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

I was a good shooter in college, but it's a different level here in the NBA and I'm working on getting better.

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

It was always my dream to play in the NBA, especially for the Lakers because they're the greatest franchise ever.

I think David Johnson is getting better, if that's possible. I think he's a really good player. I think he can do a lot of things. He's big. He's explosive. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. You can line him up out wide. I think he's a very dynamic player.

My heading was NBA head coach. I didn't want to be back in college for a lot of reasons.

From the age of eight until 15 or 16, every time I was out bowling leg spin I was thinking about my dad and when you've done that it stays with you. There are lots of things he did which enabled me to be the player that I was. It wasn't me that wanted to be a cricketer. He made me 90 per cent of the player I was and the person I was.

I've always thought of myself as the best defensive player in the league, and I want to play like the best defensive player in the league.

My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.

If these are the last 34 games of my NBA career, I want them played as tough as I can.

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

My first NBA game was in Paris. It was Miami against the Nets, and Vince Carter was playing.

I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.

I think if all three of my boys get on the Lakers somehow, they would change the NBA.

I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

Going to Stade Francais will not just make me a better player but make me a better player for England.

I'm excited to try the NBA. But, for sure, I need time on the court to get used to this style.

Being able to guard the pick and roll makes you a high asset in the NBA.

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

I think anyone who is also a fan of college basketball as well as the NBA, you have an opinion on Duke.

When I was eighteen and I won the European Championship - that's when I realized I had an opportunity to play in the NBA one day.

Being in the NBA and able to connect with fans through social experiences is great.

If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

The good thing for me is I have a lot of experience going through NBA seasons.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is of the highest level and he’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.

I always watch NHL, NBA, NFL games and don't miss tennis and golf.

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

The NBA is 95% mental and 5% physical, so it's more in my favor now with me being older.

One game I'm always on is 'NBA Jam.' And 'Bejeweled,' games like that, and 'Temple Run.'

I'm comfortable being around the NBA lifestyle, the travel, the hotels, the pregame, everything.

It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.

I hope to play in the NBA for many seasons, establish my position, and win titles.

Of course, in college, you're traveling, especially when you're with Duke basketball, but in the NBA, it's on a whole entire level.

If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.

Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.

Ronaldinho is total class - a very, very great player. He is quick, powerful, and has extraordinary technical qualities. He is a dribbler but is also a player who can make the play for his teammates. He's not really a No.10, a true organizer. He's more a second attacker who can score goals and has the vision to make them.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

Obviously making the adjustment to playing against grown men in the NBA, it's all a learning curve.

What kid who was playing basketball didn't have the dream about going to the NBA? It's the biggest and final step.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.

I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted.

My whole thing when I got in the NBA was I want to win a championship. The mindset hasn't changed.

My whole career except for the NBA, I've been a winner. I want to get back to that.

Who's to say because you're just a basketball player, or you are a basketball player, who's to say you can't chime in on other subjects or other important topics?

No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.

I know everybody in the NBA watches each other's styles. They might not admit it, but they do.

Any NBA coach, you just try to figure out what is best for your group.

Playing with Michael Jordan would be a great opportunity for me. I would have someone around I could learn a lot from. I look up to him as a player and as a person, and that would make me a better player and person.

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.

I always had to be there for my family. I think that helped me a lot to adjust to the NBA.

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

The NBA is kind of where I've grown up, coming out of high school at 18.

I watched the NBA a lot growing up. I was a big fan, especially of the Bulls in the early 90s.

There's no nights off in the NBA. That's what makes it so special. That's why everyone loves the game.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.