Explore Quotes on Basketball

I think I could've been successful in most any sport I put my mind to. But I've never regretted playing only basketball.

Don't ever underestimate Bill Russell as a basketball player.

The Celtics are the Yankees of basketball.

Sam Jones and I, neither one of us were point guards, but we played the backcourt a lot together because we were basketball players.

I started hunting with my high school basketball coach.

Any professional basketball player should make 75 percent of his free throw attempts. There is no excuse for a pro failing to maintain that percentage.

I wanted to play both football and basketball until they made me select one over the other.

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear.

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

Basketball is my favorite sport.

I'm fine at basketball. I can ride the pine with the best of them.

I'm really into basketball, baseball, football and working out - but you'll never catch me in a public sauna.

Basketball has given me everything, but it has to be bigger than basketball. That was the first thing that I said to Under Armour, and they were behind it 100 percent. This isn't about a shoe deal.

I think it would've been a little easier if I grew up in America; they've got better conditions for basketball players. At the same time, many people have said to me that having to start playing so late helped me not pick up bad habits.

When I sat down with Under Armour, one of the first things we talked about was how this can be bigger than just shoes, bigger than just basketball.

A lot of people just think I'm a big man, but I'm a basketball player. I am able to do everything that a basketball player can do - from playmaking and scoring to just passing the ball and just being a leader and post presence.

When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.

Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.