Basketball famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
-- Aaron Staton -
Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
-- Adam Carolla -
Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But LeBron James gets $20 million a year because he can jam on all of those guys. We're always going to want to see LeBron and Kobe go at it.
-- Adam Carolla -
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
-- Adam Silver -
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
-- Adam Yauch -
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has a monopoly on the knowledge of basketball. There are no secrets in the game. The only secrets, if there are any, are good teaching of sound fundamentals, intelligent handling of men, a sound system of play, and the ability to instill in the boys a desire to win.
-- Adolph Rupp -
Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.
-- Adolph Rupp -
If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
-- Adolph Rupp -
I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.
-- Adolph Rupp -
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
-- Adolph Rupp -
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
-- Al Kaline -
Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.
-- Al McGuire -
I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.
-- Al McGuire -
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
-- Al McGuire -
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
-- Al McGuire -
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
-- Al McGuire -
A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.
-- Al McGuire -
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
-- Al McGuire -
The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.
-- Al McGuire -
I come from New York where, if you fall down, someone will pick you up by your wallet.
-- Al McGuire -
If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
-- Al McGuire -
If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.
-- Al McGuire -
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
-- Al McGuire -
Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
-- Al McGuire -
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
-- Al McGuire -
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
-- Al McGuire -
Make your life exciting. Do what you have to do as long as you don't hurt people.
-- Al McGuire -
When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.
-- Al McGuire -
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
-- Al McGuire -
If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.
-- Al McGuire -
The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.
-- Al McGuire -
When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
-- Al McGuire -
I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.
-- Al McGuire -
We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.
-- Al McGuire -
If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.
-- Al McGuire -
I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.
-- Al McGuire -
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
-- Al McGuire -
I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.
-- Al McGuire -
Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
-- Al McGuire -
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
-- Al McGuire -
I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.
-- Al McGuire -
The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.
-- Al McGuire -
On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the centre jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns.
-- Al McGuire -
Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.
-- Al McGuire -
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
-- Al McGuire -
Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.
-- Al McGuire -
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
-- Alan Thicke -
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.
-- Allen Iverson -
If you're struggling with your shooting, then do other things on the basketball court. Get steals, get assists, get rebounds-do anything on the court to help the team win.
-- Allen Iverson -
When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.
-- Allen Iverson -
It's unfair because the people booing, I believe, wouldn't want to have their child booed. Fans don't understand our lives and what we go through. They don't look at us as humans. We love the fans because they support and love the game, but at the same time it hurts when they turn their back on us.
-- Allen Iverson -
When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.
-- Allen Iverson -
I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.
-- Allen Iverson -
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 -
My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.
-- Allen Iverson -
Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.
-- 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 remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
-- 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 love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.
-- 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 don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got.
-- Allen Iverson -
We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.
-- Allen Iverson -
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
-- Allen Iverson -
We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.
-- Allen Iverson -
There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
-- Allen Iverson -
Personally I just want to win a championship.
-- Allen Iverson -
If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.
-- Allen Iverson -
I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.
-- Allen Iverson -
If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to mean. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.
-- Allen Iverson -
When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.
-- Allen Iverson -
Practice? I mean, listen, we're talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game. We're talking about practice. Not a game. Not the game. Not the game. We're talkin about practice, man. We're talkin about practice. We're taklin about practice, man. What are we talkin about? Practice. We're talkin about practice, man.
-- Allen Iverson -
This is the thing you dream about when you're a kid, even before getting into the league.
-- Allen Iverson
