Best 195 quotes in «nba quotes» category

I spoil a lot of people with my play.

I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original Goldeneye. Im that geek. I have an NBA Jam arcade machine in my office at SNL.

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

I thought I would make it (to the NBA). I believed that I would make it. But I had a Plan B. I was going to get my Master's degree at Tulane University had it not worked out. I think the pressure of making it wasn't on me as great as some other players that had no other options. I was going to do something special in life and I wanted to play in the NBA. I had a backup plan but I went full speed ahead with my Plan A.

I thought we'd be discussing about me not leaving Philadelphia and they just kept asking me about the practice, so I lost it.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

It really doesn't matter to me. We're just talking about clothes. I can understand what the NBA is trying to do. I love my sneakers, but we're just talking about clothes.

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

It's not about any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

It's not just about working hard, it's about working together. You have to care more about the team than you do about yourself

It's not about the number of hours you practice, it's about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

It was a good opportunity for me to wear a NBA jersey. The Golden State Warriors gave me an opportunity to come in and play for them. I was very appreciative of that.

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.

I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

I wanted to become one of the best guards in the NBA. In order to accomplish that, I had to increase the intensity of my workouts.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

I usually dig the single-digit numbers, but No2 is retired. I'm going to change it up and wear No10. I'm going to wear it for Messi, my favourite soccer player. I've been playing a lot of FIFA lately and watching the games. He's the best little guy to do it and I've got to be the best little guy to do it at No10 in the NBA. That's my goal.

I've ultimately decided that I will not play this NBA season. I'm going to take the remainder of this season, as well as the upcoming off-season, to reassess my situation, spend time with my family and determine if I will play in the 2015-16 season.

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years.

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

Jeff Bzdelik is one of the smartest, most knowledgeable, hardest working coaches I have ever worked with. His teams in the NBA and college have achieved beyond their talent levels. Recruits to Wake Forest will play for a coach who was successful in the NBA for a long time and will teach them what they need to know to make it to the NBA.

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

Just because we play in the NBA or coach in the NBA doesn't mean we are not human. We are supermen. For me, getting shot is scary.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

Just like the NBA, the NFL has guys that can pull off multiple looks, ranging from street style to more dapper, buttoned-up looks, and people are starting to notice.

Last, I just want to thank God again. He's the first and the last. Alpha and Omega. I thank you for saving my life.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

Ninety percent of the coaches in the NBA are guards, and there arent very many big men people coaching, I happen to be one of them and when I coached, everybody on my team, including the guards, had a hook shot, so that it was their bail out shot.

No one is bigger than the team. If you can't do things our way, you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are

(Oklahoma Thunder center Kendrick) Perkins doesn't like other NBA players.

Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah....' for a little while.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It's amazing how many people don't use them

People think that I'm some tough renegade, black-hearted being, evil, but that ain't me.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

'Play the right way' means play unselfishly, respect each other's achievements, play hard, fulfill your role