Basketball Quotes – Over 200 Sayings On The Game

by allinspiration.com

“I’m not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It’s all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.”
– Nate Ruess

“We’d taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.”
– Nikesh Shukla

“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”
– Novak Djokovic

“For ‘Iron Man’ I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, ‘Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she’s rocking it right now.’”
– Olivia Munn

“Basketball is basketball.”
– Oscar Robertson

“If you’re a basketball player, you’ve got to shoot.”
– Oscar Robertson

“You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.”
– Oscar Robertson

“I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.”
– Oscar Robertson

“You don’t cut anywhere, don’t pick down anywhere, don’t double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don’t happen anymore.”
– Oscar Robertson

“We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.”
– Pat Conroy

“I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn’t know the game and couldn’t play it.”
– Patrick Ewing

“It wasn’t until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.”
– Paul D. Boyer

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson

“My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.”
– Rebecca Lobo

“Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.”
– Rebecca Lobo

“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

“Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which – thank God – is right in my building here in New York City. It’s in the Reebok building, and it’s got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it’s right in the building, there’s no excuse.”
– Regis Philbin

“He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.”
– Rick Pitino

“And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.”
– Robert Montgomery Knight

“A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.”
– Ryan Seacrest

“I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.”
– Sanaa Lathan

“Sorry!’ Dave’s friend yelled when he saw me. ‘That was my-’ But i wasn’t listening as,instead,i took every bit of the anger and stress of the last few minutes and days put it behind the ball, throwing it overhead at the basket as hard as i could. It went flying, hitting the backboard and banging through the netless hoop at full speed before shooting back out and nailing Dave Wade squarely on the forehead. And just like that, he was down.”
– Sarah Dessen

“You ready to play?” Dave asked, bouncing it.
– Sarah Dessen

“I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games.”
– Sarah Silverman

“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
– Scott Caan

“Sometimes a player’s greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.”
– Scottie Pippen

“I was about 14, and my friend’s stepdad asked me to do a 10K with him because his son – who was more into basketball – didn’t want to. It was amazing, and I still remember the time I got: 48:23.”
– Sean Astin

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don’t take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

“I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.”
– Shaquille O’Neal

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