Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Lin

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

Gilbert Arenas

When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

Chris Paul

I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.

Chris Paul

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

Billy Donovan

It's not about just getting to the NBA with these guys. It's about making an impact. This is their decision.

Chauncey Billups

It's not like a switch that I turn on (in the NBA Finals). I just want to be aggressive. The shots were going down for me.

It was like winning the NBA championship or something,

Herbert Hainer

In the long term, this new 11-year partnership has the power to make the NBA and Adidas synonymous in basketball.

Gilbert Arenas

If you want to go to the NBA and you're a guard, go to Lute Olson.

Carmelo Anthony

The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

Greg Oden

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history

Karl Malone

Charles, I lost the bet.

Ivo Karlovic

But, ... if you know any NBA agents, let me know.

I told him that the NBA will always be there.

I wanted to show the NBA scouts what I could do. That's my dream, to play in the NBA. That's always been my dream.

Tom Izzo

I turned down going to the NBA so I wouldn't have back-to-backs.

Chauncey Billups

It takes a while -- a long time, because we have so many different sets, options. It's not just the regular old sets that every NBA team runs. We run a lot of stuff. It's kind of complicated.

Jonah Goldberg

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

John Lurie

When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.

Paul Pierce

Listening and talking to my teammates has helped me learn the NBA game. I know that talent can only take you so far.

Pat Williams

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Marv Albert

The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

Scott Brooks

The NBA needs more of that 'it's-about-us-against-them' mentality.

Ray Allen

I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

LeBron James

I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.

LeBron James

It's a lot of talent sitting in suits.

LeBron James

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

LeBron James

The same way you slow me down. You can't.

LeBron James

If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.

LeBron James

I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.

LeBron James

We have to continue at a high level and make them take tough shots.

LeBron James

Steph is scary. I've never seen anyone who can shoot the ball off the dribble like him. He got it going in 4th. Every game is different.

LeBron James

We defended. We made them keep tough shots, and we executed offensively.