Quotes About Basketball

It's a tremendous amount of fans in France that love basketball, that follow it every day even though the games are at like two or three in the morning.

I always said if I didn't focus on basketball, then it would have been football. I was pretty good and was asked to go to England trials.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but what he did is succeed and have a great career. I'm looking forward to learning from him. I've never played in the system, so I want to get there early.

The triangle itself is just an offense based on freedom of the ball to go to different places, everybody feeling involved. It's a good thing.

I was in love with the triangle because it was so different to what everybody was doing in the NBA. Everybody else was dribbling down, throwing it into the low post, and then their guy would go to work. To me, it was boring.

Running the triangle offense, you have pretty much set rotations where you are going to be at.

I love the triangle. It's a great offense if you execute it well.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

It's tough for a jump shooter, especially in a triangle offense.

I play basketball; I actually like the triangle. It opens things up if you know how to move without the ball and know how to cut. That's the game you learn in high school and younger - pass, cut - basically the fundamentals of basketball, which makes it extremely difficult to guard.

I loved playing in the triangle. That was a fun experience for me.

Men from my tribe in Sudan - the Dinka tribe - are very tall, so you could say I was born to play basketball.

There is nothing that will be bigger than a Michael Jordan tribute.

Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

Some games, you are Reggie Miller. And, if you're really good, you're maybe even Cheryl.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

I can do the Sky Hook, but I'm not confident with it.

It doesn't matter who's under the basket, I'm going to try to slam or block the shot.

When I was a kid, my favorite event was the Slam Dunk Contest.

I don't want to say which guard it was with the Bulls, but I would take the ball and he would come to me and say, 'You are taking my bread.' I didn't know the slang.

If you have a kid that loves basketball - that eats, sleeps, drinks, and thinks basketball, and all he knows is basketball - and he gets hurt, and he's your franchise player, you need to hold him back from himself.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.