Quotes about basketball
basketball sports rap
The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that. Chance The Rapper
basketball football team
In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team. Charles Mingus
basketball famous-basketball
Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better. Charles J. Givens
basketball accomplishment feelings
All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance. Charles Garfield
basketball running years
This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score. Billy Tubbs
basketball character ceilings
Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling Bill Belichick
basketball team mental-toughness
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you
basketball baseball football
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. Bill Veeck
basketball champion behave
Champions behave like champions before they are champions Bill Walsh
basketball sports stress
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. Bill Walton
basketball mainstream has-beens
I'm mainstream. Always have been.
basketball player better-person
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
basketball growing-up ucla
Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
basketball sleep thinking
I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.
basketball mean hair
I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.
basketball player guy
I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in basketball.
basketball years perfect
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
basketball running hitting
Right now, you know, it's not about the refs or anything else, it's about hitting first, getting on the run and never looking back.
basketball fun sleep
Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.
basketball player hesitation
Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
basketball mean civilization
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.
basketball playing-basketball life-is
I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.
basketball teamwork growing-up
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
basketball thinking taught
Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.
basketball thinking years
Tim Duncan's foot issue, I think, is a major factor in this year's playoffs. That's not the kind of injury that gets better over time playing NBA basketball.
basketball team player
In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.
basketball player bills
Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.
basketball men guy
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
basketball years nba
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
basketball civilization america
John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!
basketball fun team
That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
basketball matter
No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.
basketball opportunity differences
Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.