Basketball Quotes - page 4

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player. (Jason Kidd)
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. View quote
Jeremy Lin
I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do. View quote
Jeremy Lin
I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time. View quote
Jerry Ferrara
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball. View quote
John Thorn
If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out! View quote
Josh Hopkins
I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball. View quote
Kevin Durant
I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas. View quote
Kevin Durant
You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game. View quote
Kevin Durant
I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable?' I've always been the girl who's like, 'Let's go play basketball. View quote
Kyla Pratt
Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player. (Lee Trevino)
Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football. View quote
Leigh Steinberg
I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team. View quote
Marla Maples
My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball. View quote
Isaiah Thomas
I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs. View quote
Mary Meeker
Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it. View quote
Matt Emmons
Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball. View quote
Merlin Olsen
It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football. View quote
Merlin Olsen
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up. View quote
Michael B. Jordan
In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball. View quote
Michael Chang
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches. (Morgan Wootten)
Basketball is basketball. View quote
Oscar Robertson
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen. View quote
Oscar Robertson
In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to. View quote
Pat Summerall
It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams. View quote
Paul D. Boyer