Basketball Game Quotes
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Basketball Game Quotes & Sayings
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Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be.
— Mike Krzyzewski
It was a cheap shot. They won the game, move on. My thing is, I don't ask for a lot, but I demand my respect, especially from a guy like that.
— Shaquille O'Neal
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals
— Brad Stevens
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.
— Vince Lombardi
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
— Michael Jordan
I'm going to be working on my shot. Working on extending my range. Keep working on everything, and really studying the game.
— Blake Griffin
We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.
— Stephen Curry
You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.
— Dick Ebersol
Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.
— Derek Fisher
Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
— Dean Smith
This is a team game and one man doesn't win and one man doesn't lose. In the end, the best team usually wins.
— Wilt Chamberlain
I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?
— Elayne Boosler
A good coach improves your game. A great coach improves your life.
— Michael Josephson
Basketball Rule #5When
you stop
playing
your game
you've already
lost. — Kwame Alexander
You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
— LeBron James
I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
— Allen Iverson
I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
— Tom Tolbert
The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.
— Bobby Knight
I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.
— Seimone Augustus
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Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know.
— Patrick Ewing
We just got our ass beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?
— Bobby Knight
My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.
— Jurnee Smollett
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
— John Leonard
I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.
— Dirk Nowitzki
Play the game with a smile.
— Earl Monroe
Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.
— Oscar Robertson
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
— Dean Smith
I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women's Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They're all vintage but in new condition.
— Theophilus London
If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
— Kim Kardashian
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
— Zeljko Obradovic
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
— Bill Russell
The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together
— Terry Stotts
You always have to be on edge. You always have to take every practice, every game, like it is your last.
— Kobe Bryant
Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game
— Morgan Wootten
Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you
— Doc Rivers
I don't know hardly any of the players who have the in-between game like me, who can go to any position on the court.
— Oscar Robertson
And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.
— Kevin Durant
Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can
— John Havlicek
Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
— Darby Stanchfield
I enjoy playing at the heart of it is just a kid who really loves playing the game of basketball.
— Kobe Bryant
Play against the Game, not your opponent.
— Bud Wilkinson
I want to be one of the best players in the game.
— Kevin Durant
It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays.
— Rick Pitino
Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.
— Hubie Brown
You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.
— Kevin Durant
Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.
— Oscar Robertson
Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.
— Shaquille O'Neal
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
— Tom Robbins
Basketball Rule #9When the game is on
the line,
don't fear.
Grab the ball.
Take it
to the hoop. — Kwame Alexander
I think coaches sometimes foul their own players out of game by benching them too long when in foul trouble
— Jeff Van Gundy
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
— Oscar Robertson
We came out to get Game 1 but we also want to get Game 2
— Marcus Camby
He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.
— Adolph Rupp