Basketball Quotes – Over 200 Sayings On The Game

by allinspiration.com

“You know, I’m just 6’9″ and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.”
– LeBron James

“Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.”
– Lee Trevino

“Then I went to UCLA – so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan… and later came to football.”
– Leigh Steinberg

“Theaters are great. They’re designed to sound good, not for basketball.”
– Les Claypool

“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.”
– Magic Johnson

“Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.”
– Magic Johnson

“Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.”
– Magic Johnson

“Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.”
– Magic Johnson

“You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.”
– Magic Johnson

“Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn’t have won six NBA titles without a team.”
– Mark E. Hyman

“I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.”
– Marla Maples

“Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.”
– Matt Emmons

“In America, we have three major sports – baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there’s things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.”
– Maurice Greene

“It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn’t football.”
– Merlin Olsen

“Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.”
– Merlin Olsen

“The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn’t have a flip turn.”
– Merlin Olsen

“I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.”
– Mia Hamm

“In the tennis world, there weren’t a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.”
– Michael Chang

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.”
– Michael Jordan

“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

“With me and basketball, it became part of me.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“I’ve tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we’ll win again, but I’ve also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“That’s what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that’s great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

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