Over 250 Inspirational Basketball Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“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

“When it?s played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.” 
– John Edgar Wideman

“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

“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

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

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

“I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.”
– Jonah Hill

“I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and ‘Monday Night Football.’ Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.”
– Jordin Sparks

“I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.”
– Jordin Sparks

“If you don’t like basketball and you’re from Kentucky, they’ll kick you out!”
– Josh Hopkins

“I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I’m back home.”
– Josh Hutcherson

“I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That’s something that I’ve never really given up since high school.”
– Josh Turner

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“There are really only two plays: Rome and Juliet, and put the da ball in the basket.” 
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.” 
– Kareem Abdul-Jabber

“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don?t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.” 
– Kareem Abdul-Jabber

“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

“It’s easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they’re all at home. In basketball, they’re on the road all the time.”
– Khloe Kardashian

“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

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