Top basketball Quotes Collection - Page 4

Discover a curated collection of basketball quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 4 provides more basketball quotes.

Image of Burt Reynolds
My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.
- Burt Reynolds
Collection: Basketball
Image of Knute Rockne
The secret of winning is working more as a team, less as individuals.
- Knute Rockne
Collection: Basketball
Image of Hakeem Olajuwon
It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Collection: Basketball
Image of Hakeem Olajuwon
My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Collection: Basketball
Image of Hakeem Olajuwon
In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Collection: Basketball
Image of Ahmed H. Zewail
Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that he's the best. We don't work like the best basketball player and the best musician and so on. Science is a collective effort.
- Ahmed H. Zewail
Collection: Basketball
Image of Chris Paul
I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.
- Chris Paul
Collection: Basketball
Image of Serena Williams
I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jeremy Roenick
Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.
- Jeremy Roenick
Collection: Basketball
Image of Billy Donovan
If I can't expect someone to be accountable off the floor, how can I expect them to guard a pick and roll? Or get a rebound?
- Billy Donovan
Collection: Basketball
Image of Billy Donovan
False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc.
- Billy Donovan
Collection: Basketball
Image of Billy Donovan
Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.
- Billy Donovan
Collection: Basketball
Image of Billy Donovan
As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more
- Billy Donovan
Collection: Basketball
Image of John Chaney
I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.
- John Chaney
Collection: Basketball
Image of John Kundla
Blending the talents of your team members is crucial to basketball success.
- John Kundla
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jason Collins
Now I'm a free agent, literally and figuratively. I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want. And what I want is to continue to play basketball. I still love the game, and I still have something to offer. My coaches and teammates recognize that. At the same time, I want to be genuine and authentic and truthful.
- Jason Collins
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jason Collins
Some people insist they've never met a gay person. But Three Degrees of Jason Collins dictates that no NBA player can claim that anymore. Pro basketball is a family. And pretty much every family I know has a brother, sister or cousin who's gay. In the brotherhood of the NBA, I just happen to be the one who's out.
- Jason Collins
Collection: Basketball
Image of Toni Kukoc
One score makes happy ONE player, one assist makes happy TWO.
- Toni Kukoc
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Teams that play together beat those with superior players who play more as individuals.
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Well-coached teams are never surprised; they can adapt to anything they see.
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Winning is more related to good defense than good offense
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jack Ramsay
Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
- Jack Ramsay
Collection: Basketball
Image of Harvey Penick
I compare the pressure of a golf shot with making an extra point in basketball. The player starts from a full stop, and that rim doesn't move.
- Harvey Penick
Collection: Basketball
Image of Gianluca Basile
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.
- Gianluca Basile
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jerry Tarkanian
The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.
- Jerry Tarkanian
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jerry Tarkanian
The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.
- Jerry Tarkanian
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jerry Tarkanian
I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.
- Jerry Tarkanian
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jerry Tarkanian
I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.
- Jerry Tarkanian
Collection: Basketball
Image of Zeljko Obradovic
If you play good attack, you win the game, but, if you play good defence you win championships
- Zeljko Obradovic
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jalen Rose
Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.
- Jalen Rose
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jalen Rose
The one thing about basketball is that it continues to evolve and I love it so much. It does so much for me in my life. I've played on every level and I've been fortunate enough to be around greatness on every level.
- Jalen Rose
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jalen Rose
Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career.
- Jalen Rose
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jalen Rose
I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.
- Jalen Rose
Collection: Basketball
Image of Frank Robinson
Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.
- Frank Robinson
Collection: Basketball
Image of Mike Bibby
In our eyes we should be up three to one but we're not
- Mike Bibby
Collection: Basketball
Image of David Sanborn
My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.
- David Sanborn
Collection: Basketball
Image of Ben Silbermann
As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
- Ben Silbermann
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jermaine O'Neal
In college you learn about college
- Jermaine O'Neal
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jermaine O'Neal
I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.
- Jermaine O'Neal
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jermaine O'Neal
To represent the United States in international competition is special recognition that not many players receive and I am really looking forward to helping USA Basketball regain its status in international basketball.
- Jermaine O'Neal
Collection: Basketball
Image of Jermaine O'Neal
If I can go to the U.S. Army and fight the war at 18 why can't you play basketball for 48 minutes?
- Jermaine O'Neal
Collection: Basketball
Image of Brad Daugherty
I never think about missing a free throw. All that goes through my mind when I'm at the line is seeing the ball go through the bottom of the net.
- Brad Daugherty
Collection: Basketball
Image of Stewart Granger
The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".
- Stewart Granger
Collection: Basketball
Image of Bill Foster
Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.
- Bill Foster
Collection: Basketball