Basketball Quotes - Page 123

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results of their decisions does not let us understand the process that they used to make the choice in the first place. A good analogy is sports. If you wanted to know how well a person plays basketball, for example, you could look at statistics like shooting percentage or blocked shots. But, this is just an historical account of how well the individual played in the past - the numbers do not tell us much about how that individual plays basketball now.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

David [Halberstam] kept on doing what he did because he loved it. One of the obituaries I read quoted him as saying that he did journalism for the same reason the great Julius Irving did basketball: He loved doing it even when he was having a bad day.

It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.

I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.