Best Basketball Player Quotes

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

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.

Great players never look in the mirror and think I’m a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player…now it’s my turn to laugh.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

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

I guess the way I describe it is when basketball players talk about being in the zone and they feel like they can’t miss. That’s the way a running back feels when the game is in slow-motion. It feels like every cut is right, every run is going to be at least 10 yards. You see what the defense is doing. You know what they’re trying to do to you. It’s awesome.

I’m just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn’t think I could pull that off. I’m a little short to be a basketball player!

I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size – so graceful.

Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I’ve ever seen.

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don’t like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women’s basketball player.

As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances of getting published; I knew that I had some game, as the basketball players say these days, and I also felt that time was on my side; sooner or later the best-selling writers of the sixties and seventies would either die or go senile, making room for newcomers like me.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I’d be out of a job

You should never want to be a one position player. If you’re a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That’s the difference between really good players and average players.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

If I don’t get five [titles], I won’t be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don’t know how you guys will feel about me.

When I first came in the NBA League you were slotted into a position and you did what you were slotted to do and there wasn’t much room to expand your role. Today’s game with the offensive schemes and the defensive schemes, it really allows to have a lot more creativity as a basketball player.

When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren’t right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they’re valued-because if you show them value, they’re going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.

As you keep shooting the ball, you become a better basketball player.

I always wanted to be a basketball player.

If you’re a basketball player, you’ve got to shoot.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.