Top Basketball Quotes

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's struggle for independence. Nelson and Marciu...

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports lea...

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

My swag was phenomenal.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from...

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to...

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.