Basketball Player quotes
#9123 Charles Barkley
I don't know anything about , but Angola's in trouble.
#51507 Kareem Abdul Jabbar
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
#51508 Kareem Abdul Jabbar
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
#51509 Kareem Abdul Jabbar
A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
#59348 Carmelo Anthony
When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.
#59349 Carmelo Anthony
People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
#59350 Carmelo Anthony
I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you.
#76981 Larry Bird
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
#76982 Larry Bird
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
#76983 Larry Bird
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
#76985 Larry Bird
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
#76986 Larry Bird
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
#76987 Larry Bird
As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
#76989 Larry Bird
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
#76990 Larry Bird
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
#76992 Larry Bird
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
#76993 Larry Bird
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
#76994 Larry Bird
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.
#76995 Larry Bird
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
#76997 Larry Bird
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
#76998 Larry Bird
The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
#76999 Larry Bird
What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
#77001 Larry Bird
The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
#77002 Larry Bird
When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
#77004 Larry Bird
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
#77005 Larry Bird
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
#88529 Kobe Bryant
Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
#88530 Kobe Bryant
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
#88531 Kobe Bryant
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
#97703 Vince Carter
Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
#97704 Vince Carter
There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
#97705 Vince Carter
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
#99826 Wilt Chamberlain
I believe that good things come to those who work.
#99827 Wilt Chamberlain
I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.
#99828 Wilt Chamberlain
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
#99829 Wilt Chamberlain
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
#99830 Wilt Chamberlain
With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.
#99832 Wilt Chamberlain
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
#99833 Wilt Chamberlain
The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
#99834 Wilt Chamberlain
We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.
#99835 Wilt Chamberlain
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.