Basketball Quotes

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like claiming to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Joseph Brodsky

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I don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

LeBron James

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Back in 2011, I was kind of shy. I wasn't as good because that was the year, also, when I started playing basketball.

Joel Embiid

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I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.

Marshall Goldsmith

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I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.

Johnny Mathis

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I want to play Villanova basketball.

Jalen Brunson

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I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

Joel Embiid

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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.

Lil Dicky

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I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.

Dirk Nowitzki

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There's nothing to be scared of. We're playing basketball. The only thing that could happen is you failing. But as long as you're going hard, there's nothing to be scared of for me. I don't know what there is to be scared of.

Kawhi Leonard

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We must take down the carnies. I think we need to start a campaign to defeat their scamming ways. I never win the boardwalk basketball game.

Melissa Rauch

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I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

Kenyon Martin

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Bottom line: college basketball is broken.

Dick Vitale

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Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.

Katherine McNamara

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If you want to make films, you'll watch Kurosawa. If you want to play a violin, you listen to Seghetti. Same with somebody who has the ambition to play in the NBA. I watch a basketball game; I enjoy it. Somebody who really wants to learn to play is studying whatever is most magnificent that's going on out there.

Robert Pinsky

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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I'm out there on the basketball court.

Kobe Bryant

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In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.

Derrick Rose

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I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Harvey Mason, Jr.

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Why is UCLA and Georgia Tech in China to play a basketball game? Missing all that school, and then force-feeding their fans the idea of 'student-athletes.'

Jeff Van Gundy

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Basketball and ping-pong are my two forms of exercise.

Kim Gordon

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I'm a huge fan of basketball. Any time you get a chance to watch basketball, I do it.

Draymond Green

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I was into everything athletic. I played football. I ran track for a long time. I played basketball every day at home with my friends.

Casper Smart

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Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other things that went into it.

Jeff Van Gundy

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You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.

Kevin Durant

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