Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Cousy

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

Bob Cousy

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Bob Cousy

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

Bob Cousy

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

Bob Cousy

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Billy Bush

Dinner, basketball game, four guys - classic.

Bridgette Wilson

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I'm 5'9 and that's not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.

Brian Tracy

There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.

Jamie Foxx

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.

Kenyon Martin

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.

Billy Bob Thornton

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

Bill James

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

Kevin Chamberlin

We don't get the Tony gift basket anymore. You used to get incredible swag - there was like $5,000 worth of stuff. I remember getting an MP3 player, gift certificates to restaurants, a three-year gym membership.

When I had (Lauren) Tanner and them, that (zone) was actually what they did. When (this team) was in junior high, that's what they did. They haven't played it varsity as much, but they know what we have to do and where we have to go. (Claiborne) is a good basketball team, and (three players) can shoot the lights out. Our kids knew that. We didn't give them any good looks, and they had to work for everything they got.

When I made the basket to tie it, I really felt good about what was happening.

LaMarcus Aldridge

When I came to Texas, my main two goals were to get started on earning my degree and to have the opportunity to play in the NBA. I've accomplished both of those and the opportunity is there for me right now to begin the next stage of my basketball career.

When I heard that, my heart just broke. I don't see this stopping her basketball career (because) mentally, she's very strong.

Dick Vitale

People that don't know me think that basketball is my life 24/7. Trust me, there is much more to my life. My number one priority in my life is my family.

Dick Vitale

The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.

Dennis Rodman

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

Dennis Rodman

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

Dennis Rodman

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

Dennis Rodman

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

Dennis Rodman

With me, everything's right on the table.

Dennis Rodman

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Dennis Rodman

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

Dennis Rodman

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Dennis Rodman

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

Dennis Rodman

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

Dennis Rodman

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

Dennis Rodman

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.