Famous Quotes & Sayings

I consider myself a basketball player who plays football.

Aaron Gray

I couldn't believe when he hit that last 3-pointer from about 15 feet beyond the line, but what can you do? He was unbelievable.

I couldn't be any prouder of these kids in this locker room right here. They played a great basketball game. Lets just say that there were forces outside of our control that cost us the game.

I could join the Lakers basketball team. I've got Kobe here today.

I came out of the womb a basketball player. That's what I played since I was 2 or 3 years old, but she wanted me to have versatility in my life, to be good at more than one thing. The more options you have, the better possibilities you have.

I don't like to go to San Jacinto period. They're a very good basketball team that has lost some close games and are going to be dangerous in the tournament.

I don't necessarily like the position we're in, but we're going to do what we can do to win basketball games. No matter how...we're going to finish the season with class. We're going to play our tails off, and we're not going to let our guys quit.

I don't look at Steve as being any trouble. We're just trying to get Steve Francis back. As I told him, I haven't really seen Steve Francis in three weeks. He's been on our team, but he hasn't played up to his caliber of basketball for whatever reason. We're just trying to get to the bottom of that and get him back to playing basketball the way he's capable of playing. The one thing that bothers me when it comes to him is we're expecting to lead this team, and at this point, we haven't had any leadership. We're looking forward to that stepping up, too.

Manu Ginobili

We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.

John F. Kennedy

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

Jonathan Horton

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

Jonathan Groff

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

Jonah Hill

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.

Jimmy Connors

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Jimmy Connors

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Jimmy Connors

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jim Nantz

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

George Lucas

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

George Karl

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

When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

George Karl

Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding

George Karl

I would never predict a run like that. Last season, that's beyond reality. I think we can go 25-14. I think we can play 10 games over .500, even more than (that) over .500, and that would be a great run. Any time you go 30-15 or something like that, that's pretty incredible basketball.

Emily Rios

I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball game, I'll probably talk to everyone there. That's different. But on the outside world, if I don't know you and you don't know me, I probably cannot sit there and have a conversation.

Jimmy Fallon

After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'

John Cullum

I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.

Joel Osteen

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

John Irving

I don’t have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we’re understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.

John Elway

When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to fail before a game, but it shouldn't stop us from continuing, and from doing what we have to do to get the job done.

John Edgar Wideman

When it's played the way is supposed 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 Calipari

You have to lose yourself in the team and you have to lose yourself in the game

John Calipari

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

John Calipari

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself