Basketball Quotes - Page 84

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

The best way to build team chemistry is the way Rupp used to substitute, when they fouled out.

It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown.

There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose, lose, lose and lose. All right, I'm talking about me.

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"

We didnt come out with any energy. We know were not good enough to let the game come to us. We have to come with high energy, play hard team basketball and do everything the right way. Coming into the season, we all knew we didnt have too much room for error.

We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.