Basketball Quotes - Page 135

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

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.

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.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

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.

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

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.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

We joke around a lot with our ballclub.

I don't play them a lot of minutes. I have great starters. I have All-Stars, world champions.

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.