Basketball Quotes and Sayings
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
- Red Auerbach
Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative.
- Dan Frisby
Nothing there but basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
- Ogden Nash
As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don’t know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.
- Kobe Bryant
If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
- Charles Barkley
I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years.Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
- Dave Barry
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn’t moved on me yet.
- Julius Erving
Basketball doesn’t build character. It reveals it.
- Unknown
I viewed it as a business, but I always viewed it as a game. An opportunity to show my skills, my basketball skills, amongst the best in the world.
- Michael Jordan
The invention of basketball was not an accident.It was developed to meet a need.Those boys simply would not play “Drop the Handkerchief.”
- James Naismith
They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.
- Earvin ”Magic” Johnson
You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
- Bobby Knight
It does’nt matter if you fall down,it’s whether you get back up .
- Micheal Jordan
Money isn’t everything. I know I’ll make lots of it playing basketball, but I’m in no hurry.
- Andrew Bogut
I truly love the game of basketball. I truly love the game. I wouldn’t be playing if I didn’t love the game.
- Michael Jordan
If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.
- Isiah Thomas
When it’s played the way is spozed 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
- John Edgar Wideman
Basketball is the MTV of sports.
- Sara Levinson
This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.
- Dick Vertleib
June 5th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I’ll watch my mouth if you watch the game. (to the ref)
March 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you as rich as me, they won’t make you rebound like me, and they definitely won’t make you as handsome as me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it. -Charles Barkley 2003 Commercial
March 15th, 2009 at 6:40 am
When you play summer softball and there’s no summer basketball available, you’re sitting in the dug-out wishing you were on the bench watching your team score baskets .
December 24th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Life is like basketball to suceed you need to have fun.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
“We B-Balling!”
December 13th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
“The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary”-unknown
November 19th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
LIfe begins when the season starts….
November 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
when you get tired and its a close game, run harder, it may hurt and you may want to just lay down right then, but when you look back at what you did that game, you will be proud.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
when you are running up and down the court and you are tired, all you can think about is how bad you wish you could get out and take a drink, but when you are out taking that drink, all you can think about is going back in.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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It would be called Cheer Leading…..
October 7th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
a win is a win a lose is a lose if it doesnt hurt in side then you dont have heart. this is the saying that i go by.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
I HAVE BEEN PLAYING BASKETBALL EVER SINCE I COULD WALK, AND MY SOPHMORE YEAR I GOT MY 2ND CONCUSION IN 2YRS AND HAD TO SIT OUT 2 GAMES ONE OF WHICH WAS AGAINST OUR RIVAL I WAS SO PISSED I CAME TO SUPPORT MY TEAM BECAUSE I WAS A TEAM CAPTAIN BUT NOTHIN HURT ME MORE THAN HAVN TO SIT ON THAT BENCH. EVERYONE WAS SAYING ITS NOT WORTH THE RISK N I WOULD ANSWER TO WHO BCUZ TO ME BASKETBALL IS LIFE AND ANYTHING IS WORTH IT.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
my bestfriend loves basketball she’s been playing for 11 years now she twisted her knee and now she can’t play this season when she found this out she cried. she loves basketball. basketball is her life she twisted her knee last year but faked being better to play. and i just started playing and i love it. u should write more sayings there’re awesome
May 20th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I like most of these. Some are confuzzling
April 7th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I have been playing basketball for six years and I just started my high school career in basketball. I was injured over the season and faked that I was better because it was killing me just sitting on the bench!!!!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:42 am
I still think that ya’ll should write more.
Basketball is the best!
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
i tore my acl…. and i missed half my season… i’m not allowed to play til august…. and magic johnson was sooo right when he said…. “they said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me.” it means the world to me. and not playing is def killing me.
March 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Basketball means the world to me and it has had such a big effect on my life….. iv’e only played it for 2 years and im not the best. but i give my heart out when i play that game…
March 5th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Some are stupid but some are funny? I dont know???????????? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
i really enjoyed your funny quotes and sayings…you should wright more………thanks for the laughs