Basketball Quotes
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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Evan Bayh
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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.
Dan Monson
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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.
Daryl Morey
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My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
Burt Reynolds
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
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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.
Ed Macauley
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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.
George Raveling
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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.
Sherman Alexie
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I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
Steve Alford
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It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.
Paul Pierce
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You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.
Paul Pierce