Basketball Quotes

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

Keyshawn Johnson

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Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, 'OK, I'll do it.'

Deandre Ayton

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Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.

Elena Delle Donne

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I don't think there's a man on the earth that can stop me from scoring a basketball.

Michael Beasley

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Who knows, maybe I'll be a basketball player one day? No, I'm definitely never going to be a basketball player. I have no hand-eye coordination.

Justine Skye

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I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basketball players warm up, so why shouldn't the announcer warm up?

Chick Hearn

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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.

Zach LaVine

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What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.

John Wooden

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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

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I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in the offseason, I started playing basketball, and I just fell in love with the game. I've been playing basketball ever since 5th grade.

Chauncey Billups

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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

Yani Tseng

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I grew up playing basketball on the streets of New York City, and it was very, very rough, and I started playing in the NBA in the same way.

Metta World Peace

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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

Hunter S. Thompson

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I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that's what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.

Chris Paul

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I don't play golf. I don't play basketball. I don't really like cards. I don't think anybody questions whether or not I have a role to play here. And so I think it is irrelevant whether the president wants to do that in some of his free time. What's really important is, when we have something to say, does he listen to us?

Valerie Jarrett

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Basketball, man: it is a land of giants.

Amar'e Stoudemire

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As for middle school, I had a really horrible era of style. I'd only play basketball with the boys during lunch, so I went through a phase of only wearing Lakers uniforms to school - that was cute! And then I kind of went through the Puma phase that everyone went through with the sweatsuits, which turned into Juicy Couture sweatsuits.

Gigi Hadid

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Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?

Coco Rocha

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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

Rakul Preet Singh

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I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Stephen Curry

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With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

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When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.

Boyd Holbrook

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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

Pat Summerall

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I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Steve Alford

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