Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm – what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm. – Earl Monroe
True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won’t do it. Coaches like that are not coaches. – Morgan Wootten
Basketball is a team game. But that doesn’t mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. – Dean Smith
If this acting thing doesn’t work, I’d just put in my resume for NBA.com. I’m a really huge basketball fan… I’ll talk all sorts of trash. – Genesis Rodriguez
I love to play basketball, but I haven’t played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would. – Curtis Granderson
Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it’s mind-blowing. – Dominique Wilkins
My dad never really played basketball, but now he’s my biggest critic. I come home, and he says: ‘Why didn’t you shoot there? Why didn’t you drive?’ – Dirk Nowitzki
I’ve decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level. – Dwyane Wade
Honestly, the only thing I loved when I was a kid was basketball. I was an athlete when I was a kid, and that was it. – Justin Timberlake
I used to ski. I still play basketball a little bit. I’ll play soccer but more in a safe environment, never on a full-grass pitch. – Milos Raonic
I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior. – Pat Summitt
I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie ‘Hoosiers.’ That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs. – Mary Meeker
I played basketball, and I loved it. But I never thought of it seriously as being a professional. – Jim Brown
I had been a basketball fan growing up, and I felt that if we brought in the proper coach, and we played basketball the old fashioned way – where defense is paramount and offense involved movement off the ball and movement of the ball – we could build a winning team, and Chicago would respond to that. – Jerry Reinsdorf
What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz. – John Edgar Wideman
Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. – Magic Johnson
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say ‘Hi’ before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, ‘Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!’ – Jeff Ament
Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine on the basketball court of the San Pedro Boys & Girls Club in California. – Misty Copeland
I have ‘the first’ attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball. – Lisa Leslie
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys. – Keyshawn Johnson
I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I’m here to win. I’m not here to make friends. – Kenyon Martin