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Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.
— Kobe Bryant
Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.
— Bill Walton
My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
I just go out there and play basketball. God's given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.
— Chamique Holdsclaw
How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.
— Bob Myers
I've been an athlete that's sort of in advance; always thinking. After basketball I'd love to have my own radio show, my own TV show.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
— Billy Kennedy
It's t'ai chi every time. I'm using your positive energy, and I'm blowing off it. See, most guys can't push, they got to lean. When they lean, I spin.
— Shaquille O'Neal
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.
— Mike Krzyzewski
My name's been on this check for a week now.
— Larry Bird
Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.
— Dennis Rodman
Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.
— Dean Smith
He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.
— Kobe Bryant
People can fly. Some people fly higher than others, that's all.
— Michael Jordan
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
We play a different style than other teams. It's effective, but different. We run the floor, block shots and create turnovers.
— Steve Nash
It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.
— Akeem Ayers
That's my tag, whether I like it or not.
— Wilt Chamberlain
When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player ... now it's my turn to laugh.
— Allen Iverson
I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
— Shaquille O'Neal
But you can not compare Yao's stats to mine. You just can't compare it and I am playing everyone one-on-one.
— Shaquille O'Neal
With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything.
— Kevin Durant
There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.
— Allen Iverson
I came here with the perfect chemist's perception. The formula they had was perfect and any added ingredient could make it go bad or worse.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.
— Shaquille O'Neal
If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.
— Charles Barkley
He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.
— Dennis Rodman
Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
— Ndamukong Suh
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
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
— Don Meyer
The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.
— Frosty Westering
When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
— Shaquille O'Neal
You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.
— Paul Westphal
It's a different role for me, playing with the great Dwyane Wade.
— Shaquille O'Neal
He's the Italian version of my father. I don't know if he's Italian or not.
— Shaquille O'Neal
You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their roles
— John Wooden
It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.
— John Wooden
It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
— Julius Erving
It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.
— Chris Kraus
Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.
— Yao Ming
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.
— Al McGuire
The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.
— Magic Johnson
Don't let talent get in way of team performance. Great players do what's outstanding for team, not what makes them stand out
— Jerry West
I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
— Chris Paul
We Latinos are in a growing stage in the NBA. It's all part of the international basketball boom.
— Manu Ginobili
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
— Doug Collins
Basketball was mine, and that's what's carried me to this point.
— Stephen Curry
It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again.
— Tim Duncan
A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
— Mike Krzyzewski
I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.
— Shaquille O'Neal
That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.
— Seimone Augustus
There's a disposition great defenders have - a genuine pride that scores are a problem, people that score on me is a problem
— Brett Brown
Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.
— Kelvin Sampson
You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.
— Henry Iba
I think I'm the only player who looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'That's barbecued chicken down there.'
— Shaquille O'Neal
The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.
— Oscar Robertson
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.
— Bill Walton
I really cherish everything that basketball brings; and I think, for me, it's been a great ride and I'm not done yet.
— Stephen Curry
We're just playing basketball. It's not like we're going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
— Charles Barkley
He fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that's when I really started getting points. He was no more at fault than anyone.
— Wilt Chamberlain
I say 'come with it.' I'm not expecting anything easy. You have to earn your place. That's fine with me.
— Carmelo Anthony
Nobody's more important than the team.
— Rejean Houle
I knew Rick Pitino was going to make them play that outbreak, monkey defense. He's been doing it all his life.
— Shaquille O'Neal
It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.
— Carmelo Anthony
In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.
— Larry Bird
There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.
— Dennis Rodman
Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you
— Bill Belichick
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
— Sue Wicks
Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.
— Kevin Durant
If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?
— John Irving
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
— Adam Yauch
I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
— Charles Barkley
Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.
— Jackie Mason
If he wants to get that next contract, he's going to have to go to the New York Athletic Club three times a day and just ride the bike.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure.
— Charles Barkley
I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.
— Shaquille O'Neal
We lost, and that's the main thing that went wrong,
— Mike Krzyzewski
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
— T. S. Eliot