Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Carter

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

Roger Kahn

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

Troy Polamalu

There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.

Rick Riordan

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

Rick Fox

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

Richard DeVos

I have seen countless people make a choice to be confident. If you don't naturally feel bold and confident, you can choose an attitude of confidence.

Regis Philbin

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

Macklemore

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

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.

Julius Erving

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

Julius Erving

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Julius Erving

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

Julius Erving

I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.

Julius Erving

One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

Julius Erving

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

Julius Erving

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.