Best 195 quotes in «nba quotes» category

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 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 any one person. You've got to get over yourself and realize that it takes a group to get this thing done

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

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

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.

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'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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

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

Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday.

Push yourself to keep improving or you'll stay as close to the bottom as you are to the top

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

So many people doubted me. They motivated me every single day, to be, who I am.

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

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.