69 Knicks Quotes

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Famous Knicks Quotes

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot. — Kobe Bryant

This ain't the Girl Scouts. This ain't the Boy Scouts. This is the NBA. — Kevin Garnett

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. - Kurtis Blow

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships. — Kurtis Blow

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players — Jock Stein

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams — Bill Simmons

The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that. — Jim Thorpe

The Spurs are a great WNBA team. — Shaquille O'Neal

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. — Dizzy Dean

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. — Pee Wee Reese

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts. — Jeremy Lin

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night. — Steve Nash

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships. — Unknown

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money. — Oscar Robertson

Short Knicks Quotes

  • A knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot. — Oliver Hardy
  • Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house. — Devin Townsend
  • We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things. — Bernhard Langer
  • I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100. — Wilt Chamberlain
  • If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god. — Tony Parker
  • The Knicks, they're a very talented team. — Jason Kidd
  • Most of the fans will still be Knick fans. — Patrick Ewing
  • I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure. — Andre Holland
  • Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion. — Marv Albert

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More Knicks Quotes

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for. — Horace Kephart

Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra knicks? I'm practically naked each time I step in the ring. But I tend to cover up my privates in public. No one likes ginger pubes. — Sheamus

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die. — Sayings

We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing. — Jalen Rose

My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals. — John Starks

Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse. — Jean Baudrillard

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. — John Starks

It was a lot of fun playing against one of the best players to ever play this game in Michael Jordan. For me it was a dream to play against him night in and night out in the NBA with the New York Knicks. — John Starks

When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do. — Patrick Ewing

I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high. — John Starks

I want to play a show at Madison Square Garden in New York, which is where the New York Knicks play. That's what I want. — William Beckett

I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit. — Jeff Van Gundy

It was reported that the New York Knicks have won all 12 of the home games attended by magician David Blaine. A spokesman for the Knicks said, 'if this is what it takes to win, it's not worth it.' — Tina Fey

The NYPD must stop acting like the only thing black people do is run from them and shoot at them. Believe it or not there are some black New Yorkers who won't run and can't shoot -- they're called the #‎ Knicks . — Bill Maher

The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical learning or knick-knacks of history, will be of little use unless the mind has been trained to see them in proper perspective. — Arthur Lynch

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'? — Ernest L. Boyer

Coach [Pat] Riley's record speaks for itself. What makes him so special is he is a coach clearly concerned about winning. His whole thinking when he wakes up every day is how can I make this team [ New York Knicks] more focused and going through 82 games during the regular season and the playoffs. — John Starks

I put that on myself with not telling the Knicks. It was just bad timing but I'm not perfect, far from it. The front office and my teammates, they knew where I was coming from when I told them what happened. — Derrick Rose

The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there. — Reggie Lewis

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.' — Patrick Ewing

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open. — Patrick Ewing

I was just one piece of the puzzle, a very small piece at that. I really enjoyed my time with the Knicks, and we had a great run. — Jason Kidd

I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved. — Andre Holland

I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on. — Simon Rich

Boston is a very proud franchise. The NBA misses them when they are not in the mix. They, along with teams like the Knicks and 76ers are a big part of the heart, soul and history of the league. — Doug Collins

I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league. — Noah Baumbach

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore. — Mark Ronson

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp. — Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager. — Marv Albert

I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality. — Woody Allen

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. — Ben Whishaw

When MRMC vows that “We will turn Knicks fans into Nets fans,” I have to say, it’s not totally farfetched. — Mikhail Prokhorov

If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous. — Tony Parker

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks. — Jay-Z

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while. — Charles Barkley

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