Basketball Quotes

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is crucial.

Rick Pitino
- Team
- Basketball
- Dynamics
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

Oscar Robertson
- Game
- Basketball
- Down

What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

Stephen Dunn
- Important
- Writing
- Kind
I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.

Keith Hernandez
- Up
- Different
- School
I don't think nobody's doubting I can play basketball.

Lamar Odom
- Think
- Play
- Basketball
The business always gets in the way of basketball.

Jason Kidd
- Business
- Basketball
I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

Andy Grammer
- Up
- Growing
- Football