Basketball Quotes

• You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

  

  Peyton Manning
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Recreate

• He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Basketball
  • Relationships
  • Enjoyed

• I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Thinking
  • Football
  • inspirational

• Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Good
  • Great
  • Basketball

• Basketball is a game and their primary reason for participating in the sport is simply for the pleasure they experience while playing. Don't be afraid to lose. Have fun while you're busy playing hard and playing smart.

  

  Morgan Wootten
  • Reason
  • Smart
  • Pleasure

• 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

• They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Together
  • Player
  • Winning

• I will never forget that Game 7 as long as I play the game of basketball.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Game
  • Play
  • Basketball

• We're just a basketball team that doesn't have a lot of depth right now. That's our biggest challenge.

  

  Billy Donovan
  • Challenge
  • Basketball
  • Depth

• Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

  

  Morgan Wootten
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Execution

• I can understand the frustration felt by the many basketball players who feel that they have been forced to conform with the league's new dress code, .. Iverson and other NBA players have suggested that they will not abide by the league's dress code, and Bodog.com will offer to reimburse any fines levied, and match the payment with a donation to each player's charity of choice.

  

  Calvin Ayre
  • Player
  • Choices
  • Charity

• Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.

  

  Dellin Betances
  • Baseball
  • Ability
  • Playing

• What am I most proud of? That, as a man, I've made my mom proud. Not just in basketball, but away from the court, too.

  

  Michael Finley
  • Man
  • Court
  • Proud of

• It's a basketball thing, I think. I said I was just over 6'7," and they made it 6'8", and it's always kind of been that way.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Basketball

• Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

  

  Regis Philbin
  • Work
  • God
  • Building

• Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

  

  Daryl Morey
  • inspirational
  • Should
  • Shots

• I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Shoes
  • Basketball

• I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

  

  Teyonah Parris
  • Basketball
  • Pretend

• You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Kids
  • Basketball

• All I know is basketball, and I'm sure a lot of guys in the locker room, all they know is basketball. So, they have to enjoy it.

  

  Tyronn Lue
  • Basketball

• What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player.

  

  Tom Heinsohn
  • Team
  • Running
  • Player

• All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

  

  Charles Garfield
  • Desire
  • Feelings
  • Succeed

• At the end of the day, before basketball, before anything, I'm a man.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Basketball

• That's my tag, whether I like it or not.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Basketball
  • Tag

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