Top 1200 Nba Player Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

In the NBA, you always have to make the right decisions. You should feel free to live a normal life, but you really can't.

I've been playing NBA Live since I was little, and I won't lie, I always play with the team with the highest rating.

As an NBA fan, there is nothing more irritating than when the league's credibility is challenged by cockamamy conspiracy theories.

If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.

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

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

Street basketball is all about shakes and fakes, crossing your defender up. The NBA is more strategic.

The success I had as a player, or the career I had as a player, is often based on the guys you play beside, the guys you play with. Playing on the offensive line, you're only as good as your weakest guy up front. I was blessed to play with a lot of guys for a long time.

Every era of coaches has their own set of problems and challenges. Today's player is different, but some things about them are better than they were in the past. I don't think coaching today's players is any tougher. I think we're a little too hard on the current day player because he's different.

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.

That's one of the reasons I was drafted because I blocked three shots a game in college so I got to continue doing that in the NBA.

It would be very difficult to find a more complete player than Milner. There are players who are better technically. There are quicker players. There are players who head the ball better. But show me a player who does all the things that Milner does well, and there isn't one.

If you want an MMO, there are plenty out there. The difference with a single player game is that in the same way you lose yourself in a good novel, you can lose yourself in a single player story. You see it in all these games, where you can fill your house with turnips or decorate your armour with a dragon skull.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

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

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

I've really gotten into fashion, and ever since I got into the NBA, I feel like players are walking billboards.

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.

[ Won the 2015 African Player of the Year]meant everything to me. It was the first time a footballer from Gabon was elected Africa's Footballer of the Year. Even for the Bundesliga, it was something no African player had ever achieved. It still makes me incredibly proud and the happiest person on the planet.

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

The NBA is changing so much. It's not like when I came up, with that old-school mentality that practice really mattered.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid, but my father always told me - occasionally while striking me - that I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. And I think there's great truth in that.

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

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

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 think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

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

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

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

I have so much love and respect for the Indiana Pacers, for the NBA, for fans, because they do support us in many ways.

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

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

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

I dream about winning a championship, where everybody is hooting and hollering for you. The whole world is drawn to the NBA Finals.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

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

I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can control the tempo of games, and his range of passing, are both incredible. We’ve seen over the years that players just haven’t been able to get near him. And you can’t forget his goals either.

One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

Everybody in the NBA works on their game. I just tried to follow that lead when I was in high school, college - and now.

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.

Let me tell you, NBA free agency is wild. It's like an even worse version of speed dating.

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.

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.

Well, for me, I don't need validation from no one to tell me what type of player I am or number to tell me throughout the year what type of player I am. It's all about your ability to go out there and just compete.

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

If I see someone that is awesome or is an amazing player, I'm going to say he's an amazing player. If he looks like he sucks, I'm going to say, 'Hey that guy sucks!'

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

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

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

When God built Pele, he put everything that a player needs in him. He knew how to shoot, how to dribble, how to head, be physical. He had everything that a football player needs to have. It's difficult for someone to achieve what he has in football.

When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

Here in the NBA they play a lot of fast basketball. Overseas it's not like that. It's more half-court plays and stuff.

All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.

One thing everyone knows about the NBA is that it's very difficult for young players to win at a high level.

I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.