Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Jackson

If you twisted my arm today, I would probably vote for James Harden, he's single-handedly put that Houston Rockets team in the position they are in today. It would be tough.

Mark Jackson

I'm fine with selecting Curry because the season he's had has been incredible.

Mark Jackson

Westbrook: 10 triple-doubles and carrying that team, injury-prone, into the playoffs. LeBron being the best player in the world. But I think right now I would go with James Harden because of what he's done. He's stepped up his game defensively. He's not a great defender but he's competing on the defensive end.

Mikhail Gorbachev

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

Ned Vizzini

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

Mitt Romney

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

Joseph Brodsky

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Leonardo da Vinci

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.

Larry Shyatt

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

Larry Sanders

I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.

Larry the Cable Guy

I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, Git r done!

Kay Yow

This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love.

Oscar Robertson

Basketball is basketball.

Oscar Robertson

Just fundamental things - I played guard and I played forward, so you get into a position where you are pivoting out on the court.

Oscar Robertson

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

Oscar Robertson

It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.

Oscar Robertson

I'm sorry that the young athletes in basketball will not get the chance to play (in the Olympics) anymore, and live that dream.

Oscar Robertson

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

Oscar Robertson

I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson.

Oscar Robertson

I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.

Oscar Robertson

I think no one has written a history of the great coaches who were around 30 to 40 years ago who taught the fundamentals.

Oscar Robertson

I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

Oscar Robertson

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

Oscar Robertson

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

Oscar Robertson

Actually, Magic and the Lakers beat Philadelphia for Magic's first NBA Championship.

Oscar Robertson

But after that you don't see a lot of real good fundamental play. You see a showboat-type basketball which is almost parallel to street basketball.

Oscar Robertson

But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.

Oscar Robertson

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

Oscar Robertson

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

Oscar Robertson

But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.

Oscar Robertson

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

Oscar Robertson

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

Oscar Robertson

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.