Basketball Quotes - Page 113

I would always wear basketball jerseys and have my hair in a ponytail.

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anything high impact, it's probably not smart for me to do.

Singers always have an advantage. You know, everyone can connect to a song in a way that they cannot do to a basketball act or a magician act or whatever.

I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.

My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.

Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.

The quality of the pass leads directly to the quality of the shot

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing.

In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.

It makes me think about how you hear these young people say, "I see you, man." Or even if you go and watch some basketball game over the summer and the announcer goes, "I see you," and you see that player smile. You know what I mean? That thing of just being recognized, especially when you do a little subtle thing. I don't know.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.

Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

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

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.