Basketball Quotes

• I talked to the team about defending our home turf; it's a lot like ACC basketball, where you have to win at home because you don't know if you can get a road win. It's big coming in here and winning against a good Silver Bluff team.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Good
  • Home
  • Team

• There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Life
  • Family
  • Basketball

• I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Time
  • Home
  • Game

• If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I'd shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Computer
  • ids
  • Birthday Party

• It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Honor
  • Basketball

• I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Up
  • Lost
  • College

• I was 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • Fall
  • Football
  • Baseball

• It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Basketball
  • Court
  • Mentality

• I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • School
  • High
  • Basketball

• I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Community
  • Amazing
  • Player

• I thought to myself, 'All right, let's take a look at your resume. You have no financial background. You have basketball, that's what you have, for your whole life.'

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Life
  • Financial
  • Basketball

• Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Basketball

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

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • School
  • High
  • Hope

• I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Football
  • Player
  • Basketball

• I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

  

  Chris Webber
  • Fun
  • Energy
  • Perspective

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

  

  Jason Lewis
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Mountain

• 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
  • City
  • Baseball
  • Wine

• A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Friends
  • Player
  • Gym

• Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

  

  Bill Walton
  • People
  • Basketball

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