Famous Quotes & Sayings

Magic Johnson

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

Magic Johnson

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

Magic Johnson

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

French Montana

I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.

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.

Joe Torre

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

Bernie Bickerstaff

The last two games, the one in Detroit, late in that game and this game is really the most competitive that we've been with a very, very good basketball team.

Ben Howland

The last seven, eight games, Ryan is playing the best basketball of his career.

The likelihood of finding any high school basketball team with the defensive players to match with the three of them is highly unlikely. I'd like to see the team that can match up with them and still have the fourth and fifth guy to stop Landon and Lawrence.

James Naismith

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

James Naismith

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

James Naismith

Basketball is a pure invention,

James Naismith

Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it.

James Naismith

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

The director knows that right now basketball is tops, so he works around that.

Malik Rose

All the basketball players in the city, the NBA guys, the coaches, everybody told me to go see Herb. He's shaped the games of so many players.

All the basketball and football tapes, restoration might cost $75,000. We're hoping to get a grant. David and I both, we'd just like for Dad's work to be preserved in a way that people who are interested can get to it.

All the friends he had when he was Mr. Basketball guy, they're gone. He's not Mr. Basketball guy anymore. They weren't his real friends. They all wanted to be on his bandwagon. Where are they now?

All the guys were really, really excited. That was a great win over an excellent basketball team. That we did it after playing the night before (against Toronto) made it even more impressive.

Elayne Boosler

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

Edward de Bono

Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

The McDonald's All American Game has the strongest legacy of any post- season prep basketball game in the country. The 2006 class features some of the most evenly-matched talent we've seen in a long time, making these games especially exciting both for the players who play in the games and for sports fans watching at home.

Holly Johnson

The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.

Holly Johnson

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now

Greg Behrendt

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Jimmy Connors

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Jimmy Connors

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

Jimmy Connors

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

Jim Nantz

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Tournament basketball is what it's all about. The intensity of a state tournament is unmatched. Until they get tournaments back in our programs and let the gyms open up, I think we're going to struggle.

Tough way to lose a basketball game. There have been a lot of close games this year. At the end of games, you've got to rise up and make plays.

Brian Johnson

At first, the mindset of some of the guys was not to play in the NIT. The way they looked at it was, 'Oh, it's just the NIT.' But that was no big deal to me. I just looked at is as another opportunity to play basketball and it's been real valuable for me.