Basketball Quotes

• I don't want to get fined or anything, but it's a call you don't see much in college basketball.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • College
  • Basketball
  • Call

• It will come down to who hits some shots and rebounds the basketball. I don't think there's any secret to either of us as far as that goes.

  

  Amy Ruley
  • Secret
  • Basketball
  • Shots

• My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

  

  Rebecca Lobo
  • Goals
  • Basketball
  • Gift

• 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 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.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Actually

• I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Basketball

• Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

  

  Mike Krzyzewski
  • inspirational
  • Basketball
  • Chasing

• Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

  

  Dallas Clayton
  • Famous
  • Basketball
  • Musician

• 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

• 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.

  

  Stu Jackson
  • Basketball
  • Judgment
  • Reviews

• The hand check has always been a part of pro basketball.

  

  Stu Jackson
  • Hand
  • Basketball
  • Check

• I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Growing
  • Action
  • Basketball

• We've got to go win basketball games right now to try to create who we want to be. And I think we're close.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Want
  • Win
  • Games

• People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Thinking
  • Basketball

• I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

  

  Gilbert Arenas
  • Feeling
  • Matter
  • Basketball

• I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Kind

• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • School
  • Fun
  • Football

• Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.

  

  Darryl Dawkins
  • Running
  • Teach
  • Coaches

• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Perseverance
  • Positivity

• I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Basketball

• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  

  Del Harris
  • Together
  • Defense
  • Committed

• I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.

  

  Harvey Penick
  • Basketball
  • Golf shot

• I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.

  

  Sue Wicks
  • Time
  • Basketball
  • Lose

• I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Learn
  • Basketball
  • I Remember

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