Nba famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.
-- Adam Silver -
I always wanted to be a Sixer. My dad was a Sixers' fan. I never wanted to leave. I wanted to start my career in Philly and finish it here.
-- Allen Iverson -
I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.
-- Allen Iverson -
People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.
-- Allen Iverson -
In 2001 we didn't have all the talent in the world, we just had me on offense and just a bunch of tough ***** dudes, and a great coach in Larry Brown.
-- Allen Iverson -
I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.
-- Allen Iverson -
I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
-- Allen Iverson -
I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.
-- Allen Iverson -
When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.
-- Allen Iverson -
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
-- Allen Iverson -
My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.
-- Allen Iverson -
I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.
-- Allen Iverson -
I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.
-- Allen Iverson -
I see kids today trying to do the things I did, and it makes me feel like I've come a long way.
-- Allen Iverson -
I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.
-- Allen Iverson -
I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
-- Allen Iverson -
I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
-- Allen Iverson -
The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
-- Andrew Bogut -
We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.
-- Andrew Bogut -
I'm not into jewelry. I've got some earrings but they're not too expensive. There are guys who drop a hundred grand for a chain. The public's got it right - a lot of NBA stars are arrogant and like to spend lots of money and have lots of girlfriends and all that.
-- Andrew Bogut -
NBA gets to see these players develop more..Did Lebron need another year, Did Kobe need another year
-- Arn Tellem -
If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.
-- Art Rust, Jr. -
The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
-- Bill Cartwright -
The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
-- Bill Simmons -
Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.
-- Bill Walton -
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
-- Bill Walton -
Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
-- Bill Walton -
Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.
-- Bill Walton -
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
-- Bill Walton -
I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'
-- Blake Griffin -
The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans.
-- Bob Cousy -
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.
-- Bobby Knight -
Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.
-- Brandon Jennings -
I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.
-- Brendan Dooling -
You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
-- Brett Brown -
Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.
-- Bud Adams -
I want to be a free agent. I think everybody in the NBA dreams to be a free agent at least one time in their career. It's like you have an evaluation period. It's like if I'm in the gym and I have all the coaches, all the owners, all the GMs come into the gym and just evaluate everything I do. So yes, I want that experience.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
-- Carmelo Anthony -
All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.
-- Chandler Parsons -
We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.
-- Chandler Parsons -
As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.
-- Chris Paul -
I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
-- Chris Paul -
I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.
-- Chris Paul -
I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.
-- Coby Bell -
Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
-- David Stern -
I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.
-- David Stern -
Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.
-- David Stern -
I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.
-- DeAndre Jordan -
If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.
-- DeAndre Jordan -
I know why girls go and have their nails done so often and have spa days. It feels awesome.
-- DeAndre Jordan -
Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.
-- Dennis Rodman -
When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
-- Derrick Rose -
It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
-- Dick Vitale -
It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.
-- Dikembe Mutombo -
I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.
-- Dikembe Mutombo -
After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.
-- Dikembe Mutombo -
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.
-- Dikembe Mutombo -
(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.
-- Doc Rivers -
I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.
-- Doc Rivers -
I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
-- Don Nelson -
Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.
-- Dwight Freeney -
The NBA is not for everybody. And looking from the outside in like I did last year, it seems so easy from just watching, but on the court it is a whole different level.
-- Dwight Howard -
I've always played 'NBA Live' since I was a kid, so to be on the cover is a blessing.
-- Dwight Howard -
You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.
-- Dwight Howard -
The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.
-- Dwyane Wade -
Wherever you go, things change you. I mean, obviously moving to Miami and becoming part of the NBA has given me a different perspective on style than I had when I lived in Chicago or Milwaukee.
-- Dwyane Wade -
Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.
-- Earl Monroe -
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
-- Eric Liu -
I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!
-- Eva Longoria -
The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast.
-- G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. -
Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.
-- George Karl -
The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.
-- Gilbert Arenas -
The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.
-- Grant Hill -
I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history
-- Greg Oden -
They won't choose Joakim Noah as the MVP, but I think it's great that he's in the conversation and he should be. But it's just not the way it works, from my experience. It's got to go in the basket for you guys to pay attention to somebody. But he's pretty damn valuable in my opinion.
-- Gregg Popovich -
I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay,
-- Jason Collins -
The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.
-- Jay Bilas -
I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.
-- Jeremy Lin -
Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.
-- Jeremy Lin -
I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.
-- Jerome James -
I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
-- Jerry Stiller -
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
-- Jim Valvano -
My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.
-- John Starks -
That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.
-- John Starks -
Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.
-- John Wooden -
Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.
-- John Wooden -
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.
-- John Wooden -
Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
-- John Wooden -
Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.
-- John Wooden
