Basketball Quotes

It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

We've got to play better basketball.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.