Basketball Quotes – Over 200 Sayings On The Game

by allinspiration.com

“Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.”
– Hakeem Olajuwon

“When I look at the system here and look at my position – not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from – I feel so blessed to be from Africa.”
– Hakeem Olajuwon

“Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn’t cautious with whatever he does.”
– Haley Joel Osment

“I like basketball, and I’ve been to three games, which is so much more fun than seeing it on TV, I think.”
– Heidi Klum

“I am more than just a Serious basketball fan. I am a life-long Addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. … Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“I’ve got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain’t going nowhere. I’m going to die with that in my casket.”
– Ice Cube

“My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.”
– Isaiah Thomas

“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.”
– Isaiah Thomas

“It wasn’t about the X’s and the O’s and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.”
– Isaiah Thomas

“If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.”
– Isiah Thomas

“I really do miss playing basketball. I don’t play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.”
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA’s first NCAA title in track.”
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“The cast gets along pretty well, it’s a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball.”
– James Lafferty

“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”
– James Naismith

“You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.”
– Janette Rallison

“I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Record’s for something ridiculous like juggling poison-tipped porcupines, playing the piano blindfolded while tightrope walking in tights, or throwing a rubber ball in a circular rim adorned with a dangling white nylon net.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Larry Bird looks like a bird, and Johnny Vagina looks like—hey, what is that in the sky??”
– Jarod Kintz

“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

“The business always gets in the way of basketball.”
– Jason Kidd

“The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don’t. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.”
– Jason Kidd

“If there wasn’t any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.”
– Jason Kidd

“I’m pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.”
– Jay Hernandez

“Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good ‘ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.”
– Jay Leno

“By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.”
– Jean-Marie Le Pen

“The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn’t play.”
– Jeffrey Dean Morgan

“Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.”
– Jennie Finch

“I’m not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.”
– Jeremy Lin

“Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.”
– Jesse Jackson

“Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community.”
– Jim Gerlach

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