Basketball Quotes – Over 200 Sayings On The Game

by allinspiration.com

“Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.”
– Jim Sensenbrenner

“My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn’t let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can’t dribble on grass.”
– Jimmy Fallon

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

“All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.”
– John Green

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

“If basketball was going to enable Bradley to make friends, to prove that a banker’s son is as good as the next fellow, to prove that he could do without being the greatest-end-ever at Missouri, to prove that he was not chicken, and to live up to his mother’s championship standards, and if he was going to have some moments left over to savor his delight in the game, he obviously needed considerable practice, so he borrowed keys to the gym and set a schedule for himself that he adhered to for four full years—in the school year, three and a half hours every day after school, nine to five on Saturday, one-thirty to five on Sunday, and, in the summer, about three hours a day.”
– John McPhee

“Bradley is one of the few basketball players who have ever been appreciatively cheered by a disinterested away-from-home crowd while warming up. This curious event occurred last March, just before Princeton eliminated the Virginia Military Institute, the year’s Southern Conference champion, from the NCAA championships. The game was played in Philadelphia and was the last of a tripleheader. The people there were worn out, because most of them were emotionally committed to either Villanova or Temple-two local teams that had just been involved in enervating battles with Providence and Connecticut, respectively, scrambling for a chance at the rest of the country. A group of Princeton players shooting basketballs miscellaneously in preparation for still another game hardly promised to be a high point of the evening, but Bradley, whose routine in the warmup time is a gradual crescendo of activity, is more interesting to watch before a game than most players are in play. In Philadelphia that night, what he did was, for him, anything but unusual. As he does before all games, he began by shooting set shots close to the basket, gradually moving back until he was shooting long sets from 20 feet out, and nearly all of them dropped into the net with an almost mechanical rhythm of accuracy. Then he began a series of expandingly difficult jump shots, and one jumper after another went cleanly through the basket with so few exceptions that the crowd began to murmur. Then he started to perform whirling reverse moves before another cadence of almost steadily accurate jump shots, and the murmur increased. Then he began to sweep hook shots into the air. He moved in a semicircle around the court. First with his right hand, then with his left, he tried seven of these long, graceful shots-the most difficult ones in the orthodoxy of basketball-and ambidextrously made them all. The game had not even begun, but the presumably unimpressible Philadelphians were applauding like an audience at an opera.”
– John McPhee

“The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.”
– John Thorn

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

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

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
– John Wooden

“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”
– Julius Erving

“In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.”
– Julius Erving

“And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight – I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub – there were things that I liked about it.”
– Julius Erving

“Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.”
– Kanye West

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

“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

“I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“OK, I’ll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.”
– Karl Malone

“There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.”
– Kenny Chesney

“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

“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

“When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.”
– Larry Bird

“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

“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

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

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

“I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.”
– LeBron James

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