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Quotes About Basketball

We're shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.
~ Norm Stewart
Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.
~ Chris Noth
I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.
~ Jay Hernandez
I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
~ Terrell Owens
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.
~ David Morse
I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
~ Jonah Hill
If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!
~ Josh Hopkins
I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.
~ Josh Hutcherson
I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
~ Josh Turner
It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
~ Khloe Kardashian
I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
~ Nate Ruess
I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
~ Patrick Ewing
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.
~ Sanaa Lathan
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
~ Sherman Alexie
I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.
~ Alonzo Mourning
When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.
~ Andy Murray
I can't palm a basketball.
~ Carmelo Anthony
I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
~ Dave Brubeck
There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.
~ Jason Dohring
When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.
~ Jason Kidd
I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
~ Ryne Sandberg