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