Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

I'm pretty fundamental when it comes to running. A basketball player doesn't practice his free throw shooting by doing slam dunks all over the place. He does it by practicing free throws. That's the attitude I take: You don't get better at running by doing everything but running. You get better by running.

Chris Rock

If you told me two years I would miss the greatest basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane, I'd say, 'You're crazy!'

Chris Noth

Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.

Gilbert Arenas

My swag was phenomenal.

Gilbert Arenas

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

Gilbert Arenas

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Gilbert Arenas

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What builds your character? I decided one day early on in high school that I wanted to be great at basketball, not just a good basketball player.

Franz Beckenbauer

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

Jim Caviezel

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Jerry West

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

Jerry West

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

Jerry West

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

Jerry West

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

Jerry West

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

Jerry West

Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.

Jerry West

Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out

Jermaine O'Neal

In college you learn about college

Jermaine O'Neal

If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?

Jermaine O'Neal

To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward to helping USA Basketball regain its status in international basketball.

Jermaine O'Neal

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

Frank Grillo

It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.

Frank Robinson

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

Chris Hardwick

My mom is a big sports fans. Basketball, football, baseball, whatever. She calls into sports radio shows and gets into shouting matches, that's how intense she is about it.

Chris Paul

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

Chris Kraus

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

Chris Jericho

Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team .. and the basketball team .. and the softball team, the track team, the chess club and the pool boy!

Chris Hayes

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

Gene Pitney

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

Gene Tunney

Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

Fat Joe

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

Francis Marion Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Goran Ivanisevic

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.