Basketball Quotes
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
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I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
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I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.
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I sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.
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I think that it can provide a space away from the other things that I'm sure have encroached upon his life and really give him a chance to do what he does best, ... His genius is basketball, and to do that he's got to play it at the highest level.
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I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a rebound situation, you've got to go up and fight for a ball. Just boxing out. There are a lot of things that transfer.
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I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.
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Basketball is pretty big in Latvia.
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I've worked my butt off. That keeps my feet on the ground - I'm the same Luis Fonsi onstage and at home cooking an omelette in basketball shorts.
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People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.
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When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
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When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.
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Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
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I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.
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I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
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There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.
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We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
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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 got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.
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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.
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Going in, you want to play a perfect season and play throughout the whole entire season, but injuries are a part of basketball.
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Without basketball, I wouldn't be me. I don't know where I would be at.
