Basketball Quotes - Page 71

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?

I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.

Sometimes on the basketball court or on the football field, you enter this place called 'The Zone.' You're not supposed to acknowledge when you're in 'The Zone,' but when you are, you simply cannot be stopped.

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just shine. (But in racing) you have to have a family behind you.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.

I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can.

I know I'm the guy others will lean on.

I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.