Basketball Quotes

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

We've got to play better basketball.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

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

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

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.

The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

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.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.