Over 250 Inspirational Basketball Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.”
– Gene Tunney

“My swag was phenomenal.” 
– Gilbert Arenas

“Good thing in this business is that you just have to make one big shot and that’s enough to make you forget 9 other shots that you missed.” 
– Guy Zucker

“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

“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

“I used a lot of visualization in terms of who I would be guarding and who would be guarding me. When I was walking down the street for, say, lunch, I’d imagine those individuals in front of me. I’d imagine going around them.”
– 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

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

“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

“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

“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

“Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.”
– James Naismith (November, 1861 – November, 1939) Inventor of Basketball

“My homies that are around me never give me that ‘star pass.’ I’ve hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let’s them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don’t let me get away with that.”
– Jamie Foxx

“Larry Bird looks like a bird, and Johnny Vagina looks like—hey, what is that in the sky?”
– Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I’ve ever written, and it still sucks

“If you’re playing basketball with someone who’s better than you, you have to get better or else it’s no fun.”
– Jason Behr

“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

“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

“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

“You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”
– Jerry West

“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

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

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Follow this site