Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Bird

When I go to the line I'm thinking 'All net.' When I don't think that, I'm likely to miss.

Larry Bird

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Larry Bird

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

Larry Bird

I hate to lose more than I like to win.

Larry Bird

I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.

Larry Bird

Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able to do well in college was that I mastered the fundamentals. You've got to have them down before you can even think about playing.

Larry Bird

Michael Jordan is God disguised as a basketball player.

Larry Bird

There are many times when you are better off practicing than playing; but most people just don't understand that

Theresa Grentz

Playing basketball with my teammates was a gift! We cant play any more but we live the memories each day!

Terry Stotts

The fundamentals of the game are the same wherever you go: pass, dribble, shoot, defend, rebound, screen, play hard and together

Lee Trevino

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

Lauren Jackson

I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to where it is today. I can't believe we won. I can't believe we have the gold medal.

Lauren Jackson

I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.

Lewis Black

I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.

Jules Asner

I was never really a model. That somehow is in my bio. The whole thing is I was tall since I was a child - you're either a model or you play basketball.

JWoww

I started taekwondo at 5 or 6 years old and did a bunch of kick-boxing later, too. Eventually I became a black belt and coached as well. I did some basketball and softball growing up, but most of my activity was martial arts.

Julius Peppers

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Julius Erving

If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.

Julius Erving

I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

Julius Erving

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

Julius Erving

I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Julius Erving

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

Julius Erving

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

Julius Erving

The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.

Julius Erving

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

Julius Erving

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

Julius Erving

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Julius Erving

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

Julius Erving

When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.

Julius Erving

With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.

Julius Erving

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Julius Erving

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.