Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In the Western standards of modesty, there are different guidelines.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

Josh Peck

I play a lot of basketball.

Josh McDowell

There was a time when only specialized Christian missionaries needed to be able to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against the attacks of Islam. Today every Christian has an opportunity and obligation to present the gospel effectively and in Christian love to the Muslims who have permeated our Western society. When your neighbor, your mechanic, your favorite basketball player, your employer or employee, or even your children's friends could very well be Muslims, the need for proper understanding and an effective Christian witness is abundantly clear.

Josh Turner

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

Leigh Steinberg

Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.

Kurtis Blow

Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

Jules Asner

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

JWoww

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

Julius Peppers

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Julius Erving

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

Julius Erving

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

Julius Erving

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Julius Erving

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Julius Erving

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

Julius Erving

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

Julius Erving

The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.

Julius Erving

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Julius Erving

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

Julius Erving

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Julius Erving

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Julius Erving

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Julius Erving

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

Julius Erving

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Julius Erving

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

Julius Erving

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

Julius Erving

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Julius Erving

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Julius Erving

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

Julius Erving

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.