Top Nba Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Nba quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Ray Allen
I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.
- Ray Allen
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Image of Ted Leonsis
There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner
- Ted Leonsis
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Image of John Lurie
When I was about 17 I knew that I was going to be serious about music. Before that I thought, fairly certainly, that I would be a writer. Before that, I thought I would be a forward in the NBA. And before that I thought that I would own a snake farm.
- John Lurie
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Image of Marv Albert
The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?
- Marv Albert
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Image of Gilbert Arenas
When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'
- Gilbert Arenas
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Image of Amar'e Stoudemire
Every year I will stock my locker up with body wash, different lotions, different oils and different creams.
- Amar'e Stoudemire
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Image of Tony Parker
I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.
- Tony Parker
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Image of Chandler Parsons
We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.
- Chandler Parsons
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Image of Greg Oden
I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history...
- Greg Oden
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Image of Marvin Barnes
Compared to the NBA, the ABA was FABULOUS.
- Marvin Barnes
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Image of Mike Tirico
I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
- Mike Tirico
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Image of Adam Silver
We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.
- Adam Silver
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Image of Stephon Marbury
Im the best point guard in the NBA.
- Stephon Marbury
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Image of DeAndre Jordan
I use Secret... I'm always powder-fresh during the games.
- DeAndre Jordan
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Image of Chauncey Billups
In the NBA, it's about patience.
- Chauncey Billups
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Image of Taran Killam
I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.
- Taran Killam
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Image of Iman Shumpert
There's a lot of guys in the NBA that would hire stylists because they know they don't have their own sense of style and they need a little guidance.
- Iman Shumpert
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
Tell them it was a foul.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
Why aren't the Nets playing in Newark?
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
I was really upset. I felt like they tried to limit me, whoever 'they' may be. So I just said to myself third quarter I'm going to come out and do what I do.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
A pinch is a pinch. If you pinch my right nipple, I'm going to say, 'ouch.' If I pinch your right nipple, you're going to say 'ouch.' A foul is a foul and a flagrant is a flagrant.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Shaquille O'Neal
You guys make the rules up, so a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter if a guy is bigger and stronger. It's not my fault I ate my Frosted Flakes when I was little, and you ate Wheaties.
- Shaquille O'Neal
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Image of Larry Bird
I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.
- Larry Bird
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Image of Bill Walton
Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
- Bill Walton
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Image of Dwight Howard
I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.
- Dwight Howard
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Image of Kobe Bryant
I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.
- Kobe Bryant
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Image of Blake Griffin
I guess it's good in a sense that it stops any of it from happening, but now you're telling me if it's Game 7 of the NBA Finals and a guy has a chance to make a play he's going to be like, 'Well, do I want this $10,000 or do I want a championship?'
- Blake Griffin
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Image of Mark Cuban
Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
- Mark Cuban
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Image of Lamar Odom
The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.
- Lamar Odom
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Image of Chris Bosh
I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy.
- Chris Bosh
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Image of Carmelo Anthony
The NBAs a Fortune 500 company. Thats how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you dont see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.
- Carmelo Anthony
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Image of Jonah Goldberg
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.
- Jonah Goldberg
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Image of LeBron James
If you put everything together as far as my mind, my body, my game. If you put everything in one bottle, this is probably the best I've been.
- LeBron James
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Image of LeBron James
I spoil a lot of people with my play.
- LeBron James
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Image of LeBron James
I never rushed the fact that I wanted to be in the NBA or rushed the fact, you know, they asked me about the NBA. I always (unintelligible) back to the fact that I just love playing with my teammates.
- LeBron James
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Image of Allen Iverson
I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.
- Allen Iverson
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Image of LeBron James
The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.
- LeBron James
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Image of Jeremy Lin
Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.
- Jeremy Lin
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Image of Karl Malone
Charles, I lost the bet.
- Karl Malone
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