Basketball Quotes

• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • School
  • Team
  • College

• If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Help
  • Team
  • Win

• 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

• It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • School
  • Art
  • Football

• 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

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

  

  Teyonah Parris
  • Basketball
  • Pretend

• I just like to win basketball games. That’s what motivates me.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • Win
  • Basketball
  • Motivates

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

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Basketball
  • Relationships
  • Enjoyed

• I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

  

  Boi-1da
  • Player
  • Wanted
  • Pockets

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

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Shoes
  • Basketball

• I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Kids
  • Forever
  • Relax

• I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

  

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Basketball
  • Regret
  • Soccer

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

  

  Morgan Wootten
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Execution

• 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

• I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Play
  • Football
  • inspirational

• Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Basketball
  • Good Man
  • Bobby Cremins

• Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Money
  • True
  • Black

• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Leadership
  • Discipline
  • Disappointment

• I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.

  

  John Madden
  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Basketball

• Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • Born
  • Achieve
  • Certain

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

  

  Les Claypool
  • Good
  • Great
  • 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

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