Basketball Quotes

• I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I went to graduate school in Iowa City, at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where the most passionate thing I did was attend University of Iowa basketball games.

  

  David Shields
  • School
  • City
  • Basketball

• I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.

  

  Adam Silver
  • Sports
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• My mom is real passionate and a family-first woman. She always told me that just because I can shoot a basketball better than someone else, I shouldn't think that I'm better than them. I know if I change, my friends and family would lay me down. She just wants to see her kids do right.

  

  Derrick Rose
  • Real
  • Family
  • She

• The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • You
  • Basketball

• The first day I got drafted, I felt the fans were really passionate about basketball, and there was going to be a lot of pressure.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Basketball

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Big

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

  

  Coby Bell
  • Basketball

• I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.

  

  Draymond Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

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

  

  James Worthy
  • Parents
  • Basketball

• The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Free

• Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Basketball

• To play at the Mecca of basketball and the Garden every night, it's probably the greatest decision I've ever made to go to New York.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Night
  • Decision
  • Garden

• I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

  

  Yao Ming
  • People
  • Player
  • Chinese

• Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Player

• I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Control

• You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good
  • Rap
  • Needed

• Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • High
  • Game

• They let the whole country down. Their egoism was their downfall as this group of outstanding individuals failed to blend into a team and produce the top quality basketball they're capable of. The team chemistry was poor from the start of the preparation period and their long nights out until the early morning hours certainly didn't help.

  

  Zeljko Obradovic
  • Capable
  • Chemistry
  • Certainly

• I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Interesting
  • Football
  • Basketball

• I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

  

  Bridgette Wilson
  • Good
  • Basketball
  • Volleyball

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