Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Erving

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.

Julius Erving

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Julius Erving

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

Julius Erving

Attitude is altitude.

Julius Erving

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

Julius Erving

I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.

Joycelyn Elders

What I can do is to go out and talk about the problems and solutions, make people aware of the scope of the problems, get them to become advocates for a turnaround, and convince them to develop an action plan, targeted to their community, to deal with young people. [They need to] find out what the kids want to do - dances, midnight-basketball leagues.

Kanye West

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

Paul D. Boyer

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

Patrick Ewing

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.

Patrick Ewing

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

Patrick Ewing

We feel that we are fighting for our lives and our livelihoods.

Patrick Ewing

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

Patrick Ewing

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Patrick Ewing

Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.

Patrick Ewing

I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.

Joe Torre

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

Macklemore

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Greg Behrendt

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Pete Newell

Regard your team as a family. Give the same attention to the bottom guy as you do the top guy. You have a responsibility to all of your players.

Pete Maravich

I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in the house. I would take my basketball to bed with me, I'd lay there after my mother kissed and tucked me in, and I'd shoot the ball up in the air and say, 'Finger tip control, backspin, follow through.

Pete Maravich

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

Pete Maravich

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

Pete Maravich

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

Pete Maravich

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Pete Maravich

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Pete Maravich

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

Pete Maravich

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

Pete Rose

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Joss Whedon

I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

Kobe Bryant

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.