Quotes About Basketball

I love the game of basketball so much. I have a lot of goals for myself. I want to make sure I compete every single day.

My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball.

The work I've been putting in, I've kind of just been preparing myself for every situation. I've been doing a lot of off-the-ball shooting, catch-and-shoot shots. And preparing myself to play on the ball as well.

A lot of sixth men have more responsibility, and they've made more of an impact sometimes than 80 percent of the rest of the guys on the team, so it's just a name.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.

I don't think the demographic for skating really entails a lot of basketball watching.

I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

There are franchise players to build around that have championship-level talent, skill, basketball IQ, and character - it's hard to find those guys. Those guys are rare.

I think there's a real premium on skill at all positions on the court. I think that's going to continue.

You're going to have more skilled and more talented big men and you're going to have guards who will similarly adjust by pulling up from half-court, like the Ball brothers at UCLA. It's really interesting the way the game is going to evolve.

I'm gonna be the rap game Kevin Durant! He is so skilled, and no matter his situation or where he go, he never misses. I'm the same.

Now Rubio, I like the way he plays. He's a very skilled player.

I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball.

If you don't look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you're not going to say I'm a white kid that can just shoot.

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

By the time Payton had finished whipping him like a dominatrix, Stockton was thirty-four and heading toward the twilight of his career.

You will not find a bigger month for a sports league than June '84 for the NBA.

He shoots....He scores!