Quotes About Basketball

All teams need good shooters. You can never have enough shooting.

NBA's spacing's really helped. Teams gotta really respect my jumper.

Playing basketball taught me the value of determination and teamwork.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'

Why is UCLA and Georgia Tech in China to play a basketball game? Missing all that school, and then force-feeding their fans the idea of 'student-athletes.'

Georgia Tech definitely helped me a lot. I don't know about coming out of high school. But Georgia Tech was good for me. I got a lot stronger, a lot more used to not having the ball in my hands all the time, moving without the ball, setting screens.

OK, my funniest tech I ever got in the NBA was for looking at a ref.

You don't ever want to be a mechanical basketball player, but as far as technique and things, I like to have certain check points in my shot, certain things that I can count on and think about. It kind of helps me to be consistent.

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.

Pace is just how fast we can get the ball from one end to the other. It's not necessarily how fast we can shoot. It's just a tempo thing.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'.

If Kyle Korver blocks your shot there should be a penalty box you should go to!

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.