Basketball Quotes
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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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About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.
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Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.
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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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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 live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.
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When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
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I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
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You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
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Every coach's goal or dream is to try and be playing your best basketball towards the end of the season. We're starting to do that...but this is a league that's hard to get momentum and build on because of the fact that everybody is so good and you just can't get two, three, four wins in a row, per se.
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Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.
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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.
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Whatever he does, whether it's playing basketball or lifting weights, he is going to be physical and tough.
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The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
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There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
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I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and there was this big crack, and all the bones were jutting out of my leg.
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Bill Russell helped make my dream a better dream because when you play with the best, you know you have to play your best.
