Quotes About Basketball

The NBA fits my game.

Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

The experts say I was the first real big man who was able to dominate a game. Who am I to make liars of them? But there were some other fine big centers besides me in the 1940s - Bob Kurland, Don Otten, Arnie Risen and Ed Macauley, to name a few.

It's part of the reason I went to Duke. Coach K came to me. He saw everything but the dunks. He was like, 'It's a dunk. It's two points. Who cares?' He saw every other part of my game that I wanted the world to see.

When I'm out there playing basketball, it's just, 'Let me do me,' and everybody is going to benefit. I feel confident that whoever I'm out there with is going to win.

Whoever says basketball ain't a contact sport definitely lied.

In the summertime you'll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.

A lot of teams - they want a point guard and I am bouncing around, why not put me in those talks and try to get me?

A lot of us players, if you were to ask them, feel like they have to play overseas. Why? 'Why not? Might as well do it while I can.' For a while, I felt that way - I've got to make the most money that I can. Now, do I feel like I could still play overseas? Absolutely. But I don't feel that pressure anymore.

Forever is a very wide word, but I'll be connected to the Spurs, if not contractually at least emotionally.

If I'm contested, I'm not going to shoot the pull-up 3. But if I'm wide open and someone backs up off me, I'm gonna shoot it.

I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.

You never think about being wide open. I don't know if I can describe the feeling. Tremendous.

Wiggle is kinda like a word that I feel like I coined. It's being able to maneuver in and out, around defenders with the basketball.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

Basketball's just something temporary that we do and we're blessed to do, but life is way more precious than this ball that we play.

Hopefully, I can keep growing as a player and have my number retired at Tennessee and in the NBA one day.

My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to play tennis, taught me to walk and run, and I ran for 30 years pretty religiously.

I started to get a whole lot of attention in the 10th grade. That's when I kind of came out of a little bit of a shell, or whatever, as far as basketball was concerned. I stopped being so goofy. For a high school kid, my game matured a little faster. It got better from the ninth to tenth grade.

A lot of times in my career, I've been the end point, the termination point of a lot of plays, just scoring the ball.

Kobe Bryant is a terrific offensive rebounder.

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