Basketball Quotes

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Perfect, Either

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
Michael Jordan

Young, Learn, Ability

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

Time, Game, Away

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Learn

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Michael Jordan

Time, Great, Energy

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
Mike Krzyzewski

Together, Play, Team

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Men, Black, Hockey

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

Important, Person, Far

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
John Wooden

Change, Else, Progress

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel Osteen

Sports, Enjoy, Playing

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley

Mean, Kids, Role

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd

Friends, Late, Early

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron James

Love, Family, Important

The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.
Kobe Bryant

Ego, Black, Before

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

Game, Play, Against

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.
Chris Brown

Time, Cool, Girl

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

War, While, Takes

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Game, Football, Baseball

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.
Colin Powell

Football, Win, Coach

I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
LeBron James

Call, Anybody, Identity

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Dreams, Dream, Tell

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Start, Library

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.
LeBron James

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
Kim Kardashian

Amazing, Game, Everyone

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.
LeBron James

God, Game, Play

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny

Dream, Player, Dreamt

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.
Allen Iverson

Done, Play, Whatever

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Benjamin Carson

Football, Same, Young

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
Larry Bird

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