5,158 Quotes About Basketball

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

...it's just one miss, butyou're gonna have a whole lotta makesin this life, 'cause you're justthat good, and it's okayto be downand upsetas long asyou're not downand out

The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

If you really want to be great at something you have to truly care about it. If you want to be great in a particular area, you have to obsess over it.

We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.

But I’d never, like, actually danced at one. I was usually one of the guys playing basketball in the corner.

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.