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

10 Comments to “Basketball Quotes and Sayings”

  • Bobbie says:

    Try putting some sayings for posters

  • Unknown says:

    Hard work beets talent if talent don’t work hard.

  • mikkayla says:

    doesnt matter if you miss the shot ..as long as you get back on D

  • mikkayla says:

    don’t let anyone tell you you cant..only you can make that decission

  • kaylin says:

    Most people usually achieve their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure”

  • cielo says:

    don’t listen to other people that you can’t do it, just prAy t0 God. when Ig0t my first free-throw compt. I don’t know what to do just they always saying that "Take your time ", and when it’s my turn i forgot something that they kept alway’s saying to me. So I did 2nd i g0t 9 0ut of 25 the girl who w0n got 10/25 bt, that’s fine I said there’s more chances for nxt yeaR IN High scho0l,. It’s fine cause Ig0t a consolation.

  • Amanda Larue says:

    Basketball Aint Just A Sport
    It’s A Way Of Lifee <3!
    No Mather Where U Goo Or Who Your With,
    It Will Always Be A Part Of Life <3!

  • chuunk says:

    down by the road at the old semtire thats where the other teams gonna get bared 6 feet wide & 7 feet under when we score we score like thurder

  • DALLAS says:

    none of us are as strong as all of us were a team therefore we win with team effort not with 1 man 1 man cannot win the game it takes EVERYBODY the whole team

  • beyunson says:

    you cannot always give 100%, you need to give more….or you will never beat those who give 110!

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