Explore Quotes on Basketball

One thing about being a great ball handler is not looking at the basketball.

I'm not a boxer, I'm a basketball player.

I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just used two hands. As I got older, I just kept shooting that way.

I don't know about bullying and all of that stuff. That doesn't work in basketball.

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

People go fishing and hunting and playing basketball and hiking and skydiving and all kinds of things that can hurt you seriously, and they don't have to stop doing that when they get older.

I loved that outrageous, creative style of city ball. 'Logic is the death of art,' they taught me at Yale. Maybe in basketball, too.

I'm really happy to have been part of spreading the game of basketball and growing the game in a place like Turkey.

Bobby Cremins really knows basketball, and he is a good man, too.

Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.

Indiana basketball is bigger than one person.

In basketball, there are no trap games. If you walk out on that court and lose a game, it's because the other team beat you. You played poorly. But there's no trap game.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

Karen is as good a coach's wife as I've ever been around, and she's better than most. She loves basketball and has a great understanding of my responsibilities, my possession.

All I wanted to do is coach in the NBA. I didn't want anything to do with college basketball.

What kid doesn't want to play in MSG? I've been fortunate enough to play there many, many times during my basketball career. Every chance I get to play there, I try to embrace it. I just love playing there.

What's going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.

I stopped following the Hornets when they moved to Oklahoma City. I think they ran their course for me as basketball player because I started to realize that there were 30 NBA teams for me to be able to choose as my favorite.

It's all so similar, all the different WAG sports - whether it be baseball, basketball, football, so I'm sure that soccer is along the same lines and in the same world.