Basketball Quotes - Page 88

Don't be afraid to let your players know how much you care about them

When it comes to celebrating, act like you've been there before.

Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

It's not to hurt anyone, but basketball can be rough.

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

I lick my fingers because I don't like when my hands get slick. Licking my fingers helps me keep a good grip on the ball.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

If it's sports and women's golf, men's golf, and it's on TV, I'm watching it. I watched those ladies do what they do at such a high level, and she's obviously a big basketball fan and a fan of ours, too. So it was cool to have that interaction.

Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point.

Bill Walton is incredible. If you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.

I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Now I see why everybody who plays for him doesn't like him.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

Well, I don't remember all the names of all the clubs we went to

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

I'll hit them when it matters.

A lot of coaches play percentages when it comes to me, but that's just a way of saying that you can't stop me.

Alvin's the coach. We must be the Clippers. And I must be Olowokandi. Nooooo!

You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!

Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.