Quotes About Basketball

arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.

In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I always was intrigued by the N.B.A.

First and foremost, I loved basketball. My dad introduced me to basketball when I was a baby.

The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

A big inspiration for me is Shaquille O'Neal. I've seen what he's done with his career and his investments beyond basketball.

I actually got an invite from the 87ers, the D-League affiliate for the 76ers.

I closely follow football (and basketball and baseball) for the right reasons, not the alarmingly irrelevant ones.

It's just hard to watch isolation basketball.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

I know Reggie Jackson is a good player.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

I was watching 'Space Jam' when I was a kid but that was pretty much the only thing I knew about the NBA.

I'm a huge LeBron James fan. I love The Heat. He's an incredible basketball player.

I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.

LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

Make no mistake - LeBron James was carrying the Cavs, but Dellavedova was the cinematic element: hustle personified.

LeBron James - I'm such a big basketball fan, and to be in his body for a day and be able to just dunk at will, have that level of court awareness and size, oh my goodness, that would be a treat.