Basketball Quotes
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Basketball is pretty big in Latvia.
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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.
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I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.
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You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
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As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.
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We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
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Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.
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I played basketball my whole life. It definitely helps. It translates to going up for rebounds and going up for balls in the end zone. Quick feet. It helps with getting in and out of your cuts. It definitely all translates to football.
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I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
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I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
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This is a situation for our team to have to grow, unfortunately. Hopefully we can be a better basketball team for him when he gets back.
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When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.
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Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.
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I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
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I was an athlete growing up. I did a lot of sports: soccer, basketball, so I was always so used to hardcore training, a lot of running. I got to a point where I felt like I just wanted to get toned; I didn't need to shed pounds, so now I do Pilates.
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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
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Guarding LeBron James has to be the hardest job in basketball.
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
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I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.
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There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.
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Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
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I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
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I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,' 'Star Wars,' 'Highlander' and 'The Three Musketeers,' and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.
