Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Bautista

Basketballs dont hold grudges!

Daryl Morey

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Daryl Morey

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Don Imus

I would rather go to Baghdad than go to a professional basketball game.

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.

Andre Iguodala

So after 11 years you're just picking up all this information. I'm a basketball junky, so I watch old players. The '90s was a great era of basketball. I watched so much of that. That just helped me be a student of the game and pick up any moment. It's the 10,000 hour rule. You're just trying to master your craft.

Andrew Weil

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

Chuck Daly

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

Chuck Daly

Defense can't guard two things in a row.

Chuck Daly

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

Chuck Daly

A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.

Chuck Daly

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

Chuck Daly

The first shot does not beat you.

Chuck Daly

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

Chuck Daly

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

Chuck Daly

Athletes that can't listen, can condition.

Chuck Daly

If one of our players gets his second foul in the first half, then he must come out of the game and not re-enter until the second half. To play defense and not foul is an art that must be mastered if you are going to be successful.

Chuck Connors

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

Ansel Elgort

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Andrew Bogut

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

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.

Alyssa Milano

The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.