Basketball Quotes
Basketball Quotes
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan Basketball Player
I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden – Basketball Coach
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden, Hall of Fame American Basketball Player and Coach
We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.
- Vlade Divac, NBA basketball player
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better
- Bill Bradley, US Senator and basketball player 1943
As you all know we’re about to start March Madness. That’s NCAA college basketball tournament when they start with 64 teams and you whittle them down to just one, you know kind of like our allies.
- Jay Leno
Success is the glue that holds a great team together.
- Adolph Rupp, (former University of Kentucky basketball coach)
My wife said,That shouldn’t disappoint you. You weren’t my first choice, either.
- Dave Bliss, accepting the basketball coaching job at New Mexico, after Bobby Knight had been offered the job.
In twenty years, I’ll be the answer to the sports trivia question, `Who played center for UCLA between Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton?’
- Steve Patterson, UCLA basketball
It was his best game yet, but he’s still a rookie. He doesn’t count. He’s not even a person yet.
-Bill Russell, Sacramento Kings basketball coach, on rookie Kenny Smith
I’ve seen enough guys who were kicked upstairs, and then found out they were working in a one-story building.
- John Kerr, Chicago Bulls basketball coach, on why he turned down an offer to work in the front office
The mailman doesnt deliver on Sundays
- Michael Jordan basketball great said this in winning the championship over Karl Malone
Put the brown thing in the round thing.
- Boys Basketball at New Ulm Coach Patty Burmeister
