Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allen Iverson

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

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

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

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 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

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

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'.

Don Haskins

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.

Don Andrews

There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.

Donald Hall

In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face.

Donald Glover

You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.

Donald Glover

There are some rappers out there that I listen to, that I'm like: "You are really good but you could be like the Michael Jordan of rap if you applied yourself." There's a lot of people who are better at basketball than Michael Jordan, but Michael Jordan just wanted to be Michael Jordan, more.

Darby Stanchfield

The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

Adam Yauch

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.

Abe Lemons

We did have three go to the YMCA.

We're excited to move forward and be one of the 105 teams that's still playing. There are some really good basketball teams in this tournament.

West Georgia is very athletic, and you have to earn everything because they play great defense. We must take care of the basketball and play smart.

West Fork is a quality team. They like to get it out and push it like us, and we will have to play 32 good minutes of basketball to beat them.

We've been working very hard on our routines for quite a while. It was really hard to put it all together and still be there for all the basketball games.

Alonzo Mourning

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

Alonzo Mourning

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

Alonzo Mourning

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Alonzo Mourning

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

Alonzo Mourning

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

Andy Murray

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

Andy Murray

I play fantasy basketball and fantasy football, soccer.

Derrek Lee

I felt I was good in basketball but I wasn't a blue-chip prospect.

Derrek Lee

I miss basketball every now and then.

Del Harris

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

Del Harris

There has never been a great 'silent' defense

Amar'e Stoudemire

There's been injuries to where my perseverance may have gotten overlooked-just my hard work and what I bring to a franchise and to a team may have gotten overlooked. But it's a matter of staying professional and playing the game of basketball and ultimately doing whatever it takes to win a championship for your teammates.

Anna Quindlen

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or so and watching them collaborate: 'OK, Twain, you do the dialogue and hand off to Faulkner. He'll do the interior monologue. Hemingway will edit - no, don't make that face, you know you overwrite. And be nice to Cheever. He's young, but he's got a good ear. Wharton and Cather can't play - they're girls.'