Basketball Quotes
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Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.
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I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.
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I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.
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I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.
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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
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I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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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.
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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.
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His confidence grew as we kept going back in to him, and he got more productive from that. I think guys started relying on the fact that he could be counted on to catch the basketball and convert.
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I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
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I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
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Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
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Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.
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I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
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That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
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It's the craziest thing I've ever been around. I've never been on a team, coach or player, where this has happened. I just hope we can take the positives to Rhode Island and see if we can play good basketball again.
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Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?
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Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
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I was from a town called Manhasset, very nice town out on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, but there was a little area, predominantly black population, and it was a small school. I played on the basketball team when I was a junior, and I was the only white guy on the starting five, the top seven actually, and we were really good.
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It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.
