Quotes About Basketball

From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are the Knicks.

It's not common for your best player to also be your most unselfish player.

I've always dreamed about playing for a team that's unselfish.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

The thing about LeBron is he's very unselfish, right? So he can pass the ball.

I'm an unselfish player.

LeBron is the most unselfish superstar we have.

Playing unselfish basketball is a core component of our basketball culture and high assist totals are a great indicator that we are playing the right way.

Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the two guys with unstoppable moves.

I didn't play in indoor gyms until I was 12... Hitting the floor on concrete - it ain't easy bouncing up from that. It makes you tougher.

When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That's not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.

I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.

If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a hospital in Congo. It started in 1997, and 10 years later I was able to unveil the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named after my mother, in my hometown outside of Kinshasa. It was such a blessing.

The unwritten rule in college basketball is the black assistant goes and gets the black players. Don't worry about the X's and O's. Just recruit.

I am nervous all the way through the national anthem and the first play. Once I get up and down the court a few times, it fades.

I'm pretty fast getting up and down the court, especially with Andre Miller.

I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.

My dream is to be able to play basketball, and if I can go out there and do it, run up and down, and come off the court again healthy, that's goal one.

I can run up and down, shoot threes, or go inside. I can also get involved by setting screens and rebounding.

At Michigan, my defense was kind of up and down because I played a lot of minutes and I was kind of scared to foul.

I think I play well getting up and down the court.

The way I play - I'm the guy moving, coming off screens, getting up and down the floor. I should be one of the better-conditioned athletes out there.

All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college.

I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out.