Basketball Player Quotes

All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, "Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes." That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.

Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!

The players have to come and play. Today we did.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

I wish to become the greatest player in the world. I want to uphold the honor of India, the USA and of my coach and make basketball a prominent sport in India.

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

I think planning to be a "professional adventurer" is about as realistic as planning to be a basketball player, so I don't usually encourage it.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

I'm just a basketball player, you know? Just put me where you need me.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

I was a basketball player. I'm a gym rat. I'm always in the gym playing.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

There was nothing magical that the coaching staff did. This is about the players.

I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

If I don't get five [titles], I won't be happy with myself as a basketball player. I don't know how you guys will feel about me.

You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.