Basketball Quotes
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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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It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain
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You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.
Erik Weihenmayer
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Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.
Michael Douglas
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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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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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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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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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Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.
Sarah Palin
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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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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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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