Basketball Quotes
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I know that topic keeps coming up, but I'm most interested in quality basketball. We're having a hard time sustaining quality basketball, and tonight was as bad as it gets. Everything we tried didn't work. Every shot we attempted seemed a little off rhythm.
Brad Soderberg
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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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When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.
Red Auerbach
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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.
Wilt Chamberlain
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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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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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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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In Indiana, we don't have an official state religion, but if we did, it would be basketball.
Evan Bayh
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach
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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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I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.
Steve Alford
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You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.
Paul Pierce