Top 1200 Nba Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league.

The intensity and importance of each possession. That's the thing about the NBA that doesn't always translate to television.

It's really annoying for me. That's not what I'm playing for, to be the face of the NBA or to be this or that or to take LeBron's throne or whatever.

Everything in the NBA is sped up. Lanes close much faster than college.

Kobe is one of the best scorers in NBA history, but I don't have as much trouble with him in the post as I do with Carmelo.

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.

Netflix isn't available internationally all the time, but the NBA is. It's nice to have something that feels like home.

Being an NBA general manager really is a lot of pressure. There's so much that goes into the job.

The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.

I've started. I've come off the bench. I've not played. I've been on the worst team in the NBA. I've won championships.

I think NBA fans are some of the smartest you'll ever come around. They are very invested.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.

When Paul Heyman came and gave me the whole idea for the character, 'The Franchise,' I remember the NFL was just starting to classify one of their players as the franchise player. So that was the whole idea, that 'The Franchise' was the franchise player for ECW.

I don't just want to be the best black player or the best Asian player. I want to be the best golfer ever.

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

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

I think my best advice for young guitar players is that it's not an easy road - definitely not; female guitar player or male guitar player, it's not an easy road at all.

It's the NBA summer league and everyone's out there fighting. It's been a great experience for me.

Playing in the NBA has been a dream of mine for a long time, so to finally get to do that is amazing.

I don't want to compare but when you're a Manchester United player, you're a Manchester United player for life.

They don't work with you to get better in the NBA. Either you're ready or you're out and you go to the G-League or Europe.

The NBA is always looking for tough kids who aren't afraid of the moment or the guy they're playing against.

Playing in an NBA game in Africa will be a special moment I'll remember for the rest of my life.

I know that, me being from Sudan and London, it's a big honour to have even made it to the NBA.

People don't realize that everyone in the NBA is really good. The difference is having a coach that believes in you.

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

It takes locking in on the task at hand and honing in on what you need to do in order to be successful in the NBA postseason.

When you come out of the NBA, you get a hundred million-dollar contract and a white woman!

I'd 1,000 times rather go see an NBA game than a football match.

I've traveled enough around the world with the NBA to see how much it's grown, globally.

I want to play at the highest level, the NBA, and one day be one of the greatest basketball players ever.

I would like to have Leroy at Bayern, that would send the right message. He is a player who would be a good fit at Bayern. I think he is a very good player.

I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when I was a kid.

My dream was always to be a great PG and lead my team to an NBA title. So that's what I'm fighting for and pursuing.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

After my second year in the NBA, my prep years, my college, I hadn't really found myself.

I don't want to be one of those players that is just a first, second or third down player. I want to be a four-down player, able to play in the ground and dirt with the linemen, but also able to play in space.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first time. It's a humbling experience because you realize that you are here and now you have an opportunity to go to work and continue to better yourself as a player. It's what you work for as an athlete and you know once you get there the real work begins.

George Karl's son probably wouldn't have made it to the NBA if he wasn't a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.

Now that the NBA has removed restrictions on the color ways we can wear on court, I can be as expressive as I want.

I just wanted to get to the NBA. I never thought I would have a career that I've had now.

A lot of the NBA teams didn't know I wanted to pursue basketball, and I'm trying to show them I do.

The NBA, and more importantly, the entire sport of basketball, has always been an inclusive environment.

In Korea, if a player makes a mistake, the other players don't like to point it out. Rather, they try to embrace it; they take the attitude, 'Let's do better next time.' But in the West, if you do something wrong, another player will make a point of saying something, and you will have to fix it immediately.

I have every goal you could possibly dream of - Rookie of the Year, NBA champion, MVP.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who's the best player today, like if we had to throw 'em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That's the difficulty of player personnel.

I always dreamed of playing the NBA, but along the way, the road got a little cloudy.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

My dad used to play basketball, now he gets to see me in the NBA Finals.

With darts it's just one against one, it's blow for blow. The only thing I could compare it to is boxing. It's dead exciting. You're reacting to each other, the adrenaline's pumping. You don't feel calm at all. But it's all about being able to win when you're pumped up. People say you don't play the player; I play the player every time.

I learned more in that first year in the NBA than I could have in four years of college.

I had two things on my bucket list: Be in the NBA, or direct an episode of 'New Girl.'

The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'

That was very appreciative because all the players vote for that. That's the highest award anyone can get in the NFL. Every team in the NFL votes for the most valuable player. I was injured. I had appendicitis the first part of the season, but I came back after ten days. Nobody came back that early. No player wants to sit on the bench. No player wants to be inactive. Everybody wants to play.I came back in ten days. I had the uniform on and played. I played those next games until I got kicked in the head.