Basketball Quotes
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I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.
Danny Pudi
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I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
Barkhad Abdi
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I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.
Brooke Sweat
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I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.
Andrew Bogut
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Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.
Don Yaeger
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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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.
John Thorn
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I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD collection, and I have a Jordan shoe collection. And I don't drink, but I have a wine collection. I just started a sweatshirt collection. Every city that I'm in, I buy a sweatshirt. It's just something that I do.
Marques Houston
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
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We're trying to get as many people to become interested in seeing it, but if you like the theater and you're interested in seeing what live theater looks like in New York, you probably already set your DVR. It's gonna be a hard ask to get a bunch of college-basketball fans to tune in for three hours to watch the Tonys.
Neil Patrick Harris
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I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.
Kevin Harvick
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
Taylor Phinney
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We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?
J. B. Bickerstaff
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I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.
Dirk Nowitzki
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See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious.
Charles Barkley
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I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.
Jordin Sparks
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Anything you can do to help someone, I just think it's so important because there's a lot of kids that look up athletes of all size and shapes in a lot of different fields, not necessarily in the basketball field. They get involved emotionally with those people because there's something about certain athletes that people rally around.
Jerry West
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Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.
Frankie Muniz
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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
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I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.
Jaylen Brown
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
Bill Walton
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Mr. Lemon-Man has inspired millions across the world through his gift. I don't refer only to basketball, but also to his magnificent gift of caring, sharing, and loving all people. I only hope my kids would possess an ounce of the Lemon-Man's heart, which easily radiates through that smile.
A. C. Green Jr.
