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

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Comment by Bobbie

Try putting some sayings for posters

Comment by Unknown

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

Comment by mikkayla

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

Comment by mikkayla

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

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