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Quotes About Basketball

My ability to play off the pick-and-roll, open plays for other guys and use my athletic body to catch lobs, that's what I do every night.
~ John Collins
My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
~ Malik Jackson
talking about, just look at the Celtics.
~ Unknown
Memphis is a basketball town, but we're not viewed that way on the national map. Maybe it's because the Grizzlies aren't on TV as much.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
I feel like me and Batman have a lot in common. Out on the basketball court, I'm a vigilante.
~ DeAndre Jordan
In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke's polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.
~ Grayson Allen
I loved going to a place like Virginia, making a connection and meeting the people that are outside of the whole basketball realm, and earning my degree from there.
~ Joe Harris
Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
~ Patrick Ewing
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
~ Bill Walton
When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You have to go out on the court and execute on both ends of the court.
~ Mike Budenholzer
Everyone's system in the NBA makes sense. It all comes down to the quality of player and the quality of execution.
~ Jeff Van Gundy
I know, playing in schoolyards, and summer leagues, that I can hit the three.
~ Rasheed Wallace
LeBron ain't got none of my game, but his heart is all mine.
~ Allen Iverson
We all know LeBron's IQ is on another planet.
~ Stephen Jackson
LeBron is making a case for himself to be one of the greatest players to ever play.
~ Gary Payton
When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play.
~ Giannis Antetokounmpo
I'm a LeBron guy, so anywhere he goes that's my team.
~ RJ Barrett
I'm with LeBron team all the way!
~ Carlos Vela
I always looked up to LeBron, how he came to the game.
~ Tyler Herro
A lot of guys who can play really good basketball can drop 40 on you, and it's the same thing with LeBron.
~ Bojan Bogdanovic
If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.
~ Daryl Morey
I love the teams of Lebron James.
~ Lucas Vazquez
Coach K, he's just the most legendary coach to coach college basketball. I felt like going to Duke University I can learn a lot from him in my time there.
~ Zion Williamson