Basketball Quotes - page 19

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player! (Eddie Murphy)
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic. View quote
Grace Jones
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. View quote
John Leonard
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. View quote
Bill Gates
Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football? View quote
Terry McMillan
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. View quote
Andy Roddick
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else. View quote
John Wooden
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. View quote
John Wooden
I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track. View quote
Steven Yeun
Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out. View quote
Steven Yeun
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. (Shimon Peres)
There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman. View quote
Snoop Dogg
War against men are known to fewer and fewer of us. Mandatory conscription for the Vietnam War ended the year before I was born. Since then, the United States has effectively created a class of professional contract soldiers who do the government's fighting in faraway lands. Average men know more about collegiate basketball than they know about a given overseas conflict. View quote
Jack Donovan
I have tremendous respect for women after watching my wife give birth three times. I could never, ever raise a child to whom I gave birth. You know, because a newborn is about the size of a basketball, and if I had to expel a basketball from my body via a very restricted passageway, I would never want to see that basketball again. Not even on weekends. View quote
Jeff Stilson
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors. View quote
Michael Franti
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo. View quote
Ogden Nash
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons. View quote
Sherman Alexie
You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football. View quote
Peyton Manning
The game of basketball is one of the greatest teachers of life there is. It teaches you first and foremost to believe in yourself. You must develop physical and mental toughness in order to succeed because there's going to be many disappointments and setbacks along the way. You learn quickly that basketball is a team game. You must be unselfish and accept the role that helps the team the most. Basketball teaches you the importance of setting high standards and never accepting anything other than your best effort. View quote
Tom Crean (basketball coach)
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. (Ben Carson)
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years. View quote
Bob Knight
I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one. View quote
Bob Knight
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. View quote
Bob Knight