752 Basketball Quotes for You to Enjoy

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate. Joe Morton

Learned Because How Skate Ice Play Play Basketball Basketball

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

Good Year Back Kind Also Because Started Playing Shy Basketball

A lot of people just think I'm a big man, but I'm a basketball player. I am able to do everything that a basketball player can do - from playmaking and scoring to just passing the ball and just being a leader and post presence. Joel Embiid

Basketball has given me everything, but it has to be bigger than basketball. That was the first thing that I said to Under Armour, and they were behind it 100 percent. This isn't about a shoe deal. Joel Embiid

Me First Everything About Percent Given Armour First Thing Deal Said Were Than Shoe Behind The First Thing Bigger Thing Basketball

It's basketball; it's always good to blow a team out. Joel Embiid

Good Out Always Blow Team Basketball

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. Joel Osteen

Sports Enjoy Lifting Weights Like Playing Basketball

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach. John Calipari

Teacher School High High School Because Going Coach Basketball

The walls of our upstairs hallway testify that we once had photogenic children. There are rows of framed pictures that show them playing baseball, basketball, holding a toad, and smiling in the sunlight at their eager parents. Everything is orderly and bright. John Dickerson

Walls Parents Holding Framed Our Everything Once Sunlight Had Pictures Smiling Hallway Testify Children Orderly Upstairs Them Toad Show Baseball Bright Eager Rows Playing Basketball

The primary thing writing and basketball share is the sense that each time you go out, each time you play or begin a piece, it's a new day. You can score 40 points one game, but the next game, those points don't count. You can win the Nobel Literature Prize, but that doesn't make the next sentence of the next book appear. John Edgar Wideman

Time Day You Game Book Writing Win Sense Those Out Points Count Share Nobel Primary New Piece Make New Day Go Score Begin Prize Literature Sentence Next Appear Each Each Time Play Thing Basketball

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance. John Edgar Wideman

Balance Awareness Everything Focused Kind Give Seems Mystical Us Basketball

That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world. John Edgar Wideman

You Game Writing World Too Make Basketball Imagining

Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game. John Madden

Saying Day Game Sports Three Everyone Trip More Computer Hawkins Football He Football Game Up Going Want Games Company Including Baseball Early Started Playing Playing Games Basketball

I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically. John Madden

I've got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you're watching them. But I've learned to keep it to myself. I've blurted out some things and embarrassed myself. John Madden

Myself You Say Embarrassed Out Some Some Things Something Football Learned Always Got Go Five Urge Them Grandkids Games Baseball Keep Play Play Baseball Play Basketball Play Football Things Watching Basketball

I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything. John McEnroe

Me People Pride Everything Say Kids Take Obviously Were Yell Expecting Scream Anything Them Used Playing Basketball

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling. John Morrison

Everything TV Wrestling Except Football Off-Season Basketball

Basketball is a game of streaks. Sometimes a guy will be cold for a month and then get hot for a month. John Stockton

Game Sometimes Will Cold Month Guy Hot Get Then Basketball

All I know is the same lessons you need to learn at Little League basketball, you need to learn at the upper levels. It's the little things you learn when you're little that apply in college. John Stockton

You Little Things College League Know Learn Same Upper Little Little League Lessons Things Levels Apply Need Basketball

I think basketball harnessed and built my toughness and competitiveness. I grew up in a tough neighborhood, and you were either going to cry and moan about it or get tough. John Wall

You Tough Think Neighborhood About Toughness Cry Built Were Moan Up Get Going Grew Either Competitiveness Basketball

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