Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Reinsdorf

Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.

Jerry Sloan

I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me

Jerry Sloan

In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it

Jerome James

We don't give 'em no respect..none!

Jennifer Lopez

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

Jeff Foxworthy

You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.

Jackie Mason

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track."

Jason Kidd

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

Jason Kidd

The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season.

Jason Kidd

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play.

Jason Kidd

I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there.

Jason Kidd

I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames, I'm really into them.

Jason Kidd

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

Jason Kidd

I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

Jason Kidd

I also play a little bit of Tiger Woods once in awhile. Get on the golf course there, and pretend that I'm beating him.

Jason Kidd

Winning is the best deodorant.

Jason Kidd

...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers

Jason Kidd

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

Jason Kidd

I think we're going in the right direction.

Jason Kidd

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Jason Kidd

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

Jason Kidd

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

Jason Kidd

Yeah, I play a lot of their games. Going way back to Bulls vs. Lakers to the later Live stuff, I go at it quite a bit. More than anything tough, I play Madden.

Jason Kidd

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

Jason Kidd

Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do.

Jason Kidd

Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.

Jason Kidd

Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable

Erin Wasson

I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

Fat Joe

I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

Francis Marion Crawford

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Chris Paul

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And thats what gets people to buy in to your brand - being a winner.