Basketball Quotes

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.

Basketball used to be my top priority.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

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

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

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.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

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

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.