Basketball Quotes

The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

Chance The Rapper

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I was No. 11 because my mom played basketball in college and was always No. 22. I just cut it in half, and I kept that. I've been No. 11 most of my life, and in college, I was No. 22.

Ali Krieger

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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

Kanye West

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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.

Romeo Miller

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Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

Blake Griffin

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When I was drafted by the Colts, Indianapolis was a basketball and a car racing town, but it didn't take long for the Colts to convert the city and state of Indiana into football evangelists.

Peyton Manning

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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!

Hannah Storm

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I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.

Ross Perot, Jr.

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Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Bill Goldberg

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I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

Sheryl Swoopes

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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

Hakeem Olajuwon

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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

Mike Krzyzewski

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I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

Teyonah Parris

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I think basketball IQ, work ethic, competitiveness are probably the most important things in a basketball player.

Seth Curry

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I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

Florence Griffith Joyner

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My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

Misty Copeland

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I know the Boston fans are all about their basketball.

Terry Rozier

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I do piano, violin, guitar, basketball, gymnastics, ballet.

Selah Louise Marley

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I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

Cam'ron

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I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

Jules Asner

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My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

Rebecca Lobo

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I always speak my mind. Whether it be something that's going on in the world, something on the basketball court, or just something I saw with somebody else that's not right.

Jimmy Butler

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I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that he was, and I knew what I had to do to prohibit him from being as effective on the basketball court as he had been throughout his career.

Scottie Pippen

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Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We're not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they're Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.

Cain Velasquez

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