Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Stevens

You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness

Brad Stevens

You have a choice to make when you're not playing. Either you're invested and a great teammate, or your not

Brad Stevens

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

Brad Stevens

We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated

Barry Goldwater

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

Barbara Bush

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

Antonio Gates

In basketball, I always had a first step. A separation step. That works now, too.

Antonio Gates

Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

Dwight Howard

Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.

Dwight Howard

That's my job, to motivate people. I can do more, show people more things. That's really why I play basketball. That's my whole purpose of playing basketball.

Dwight Howard

The only way to shut people up is just by winning and just playing basketball.

Dwight Howard

I hated that perception that I didn't work hard, that I really don't love basketball.

Dwight Howard

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

Dwight Howard

Basketball has brought me a lot of joy, brought me a lot of good things. Just that side of it has really affected me.

Dwight Howard

I know you can't please everybody; you can't make everybody happy, but just getting that perception that I don't care about basketball and what it brings is a lie.

Dwight Howard

When I'm smiling and having fun, that's when you should have a problem. If I'm out there frowning and looking mean, that's when you know you've beat me - because I'm not having fun. I've been playing basketball since I was three. Everybody since I was three tried to tell me to stop smiling. Even my dad. My dad apologized to me when I was ten.

Dwyane Wade

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

Dwyane Wade

I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

Dwyane Wade

I have to give credit to the NBA, because they've done an unbelievable job of taking our game global and putting us in a position to be able to come here and other places in the world and see how big the game of basketball is. If you have never been here, you might not really understand how amazing and how big basketball is. These fans in China love the sport, and they have more players playing than we have people living in the US.

Dwyane Wade

As long as you put on a jersey, no matter what kind of jersey it is, as long as you're supporting the game of basketball, I enjoy it.

Dwyane Wade

My life is bigger than basketball.

Dwyane Wade

I'm going forward with my plans for life. I'm looking at things not only basketball-wise, but personal-wise.

Dwyane Wade

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

Dwyane Wade

No team works out teamwork.

Dwyane Wade

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

Vince Carter

We're just consistent right now, playing hard, grinding it out. Whatever kind of basketball needs to be played on any given night, we're playing it.

B. F. Skinner

We're just at .500, so there's a lot more basketball to play. Hopefully we'll continue to play at the level we need to. There's no question we dug ourselves a hole and it's not like we're really out of the hole, but at least we're in the mix a little bit.

We shoot 31 percent, they shoot 36. You probably saw some ugly basketball out there.

Allan Houston

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.

Andy Roddick

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

Danny Pudi

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

David Foster Wallace

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team sport and lacks tennis's primal mano a mano intensity. Boxing might come close- at least at the lighter weight divisions- but the actual physical damage the fighters inflict on each other makes it too concretely brutal to be really beautiful- a level of abstraction and formality (i.e., play) is necessary for a sport to possess true metaphysical beauty (in my opinion).