Playing Basketball Quotes Page 2

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

Always acknowledge hustle plays in practice.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

Play the game with a smile.

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable.

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see.

He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it.

Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

The NBA is all about winning, but at this level (college basketball) winning doesn't make you happy. You can win, and play lousy, and in my program, feel lousy. To me it's about: How good can we be.

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life.

He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.

When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter.

I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year.

Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O.

It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

I don't complain about playing time. My job is to play so well the coach can't sit me.

I told them not to worry about it, since we were going to play indoors.

No one is bigger than the team. You're going to be on time, you're going play hard, you're going to know your job and you're going to know when to pass and shoot. If you can't do those four things you're not getting time here and we don't care who you are.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

I'll never worry about not being successful.

I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

And when other people see me play basketball.

..the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

I've been playing youth basketball ever since I was in sixth grade;

I've been traveling ever since I was in sixth grade, so I'm used to it.

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports;

and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college and I guess I agreed with them or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.

I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

I don't know what I'm going to do tomorrow.

I just know for sure I'm going to keep playing basketball.

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!

We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.