Basketball Quotes - Page 7

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.

In order to achieve to achieve positive results, one must work for them, not hope for them

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

It's my experience that people rise to the level of their own expectations and of the competition they seek out.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.