Quotes About Basketball

Every basketball thing I do now through my academy is always in a muskie state so I can work both those passions at the same time.

I follow basketball. That was always one of my passions and enjoyed watching it. I appreciate how athletically gifted those guys are. Just never got into hockey.

I have great respect for the Heat organization, the way they play, what Pat Riley has done there, Erik Spoelstra.

I'm not Abdul-Jabbar or Pat Ewing or Mark Eaton. I'm Shawn Bradley and I'm going to do my best each time I step on the court. When the game is over, it's over.

If I stay patient in the offense, shots will come.

Throughout my professional basketball career, I have always voiced my patriotism for my native land.

I went to Quigley Seminary and didn't have the time for basketball because I had to catch the bus after school to get home to Joliet. But Paul Mattei, then the athletic director at DePaul, saw me in one of the few games I did play for Quigley and told me if I decided to leave the seminary, he'd want me to come and play at DePaul.

The nation of Italy has a great, great friend in Chris Paul.

I literally remember going in my backyard and my dad teaching me Paul Westphal moves.

Chris Paul is a guy I can talk to about different stuff, especially when I played on his team.

You don't really coach high school basketball because it's a good paycheck. You do it because you love it, care about the kids and you're just passionate about the game.

There's a lot of guys that I obviously admire. The Gary Paytons, me growing up in Seattle being able to watch him play. Even my peers now, the Patrick Beverleys and the Kawhi Leonards, I admire those guys.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I can do a lot more by shooting from outside, score inside, penetrate, and make opportunities for others.

I was always good at penetrating in Europe, but in Europe, you don't have so many shot-blockers as there are in the NBA, so it was easier.

I wore No. 25 in college, so naturally when I arrived in Orlando, I wanted that number, but Nick Anderson had it. I decided to go with No. 1 because of my name, Penny.

People who weren't watching basketball were still fans of Lil Penny.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

Field-goal percentage is very important.

I shoot my highest percentage from the right corner, and it's also the shortest shot.

With that corner 3, it's the highest percentage shot in the game.

I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that's good defense. You can't make those shots at a high percentage the whole game. It's just hard to make long two-pointers, step-backs, fadeaways, off-the-dribble crossovers.

In college we could take tough shots and your field goal percentage would go down.