Nba Player Quotes:

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

topic: Basketball, Player, Thinking, Nba Player

Quotation Michael Jordan Some people want it to happen some wish it would Quotes

- Oscar Robertson

topic: Basketball, Player, Land, Nba Player

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Children, Nba Player

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Motivational Work, Famous Basketball

- LeBron James

source: The InsideHoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. June 14, 2003.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Nba, Basketball And Life, Basketball Is Life

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Teamwork, Leadership Teamwork, Team Building

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.

topic: Basketball, Sports, Fun, Sports Competition, Enjoy Your Life

- Julius Erving

topic: Loss, Weight Loss, Body, Inspirational Weight Loss, Weight Motivational

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

Do your best when no one is looking.

topic: Basketball, Motivational Sports, Emotional, Famous Basketball, Playing Basketball

- Bob Cousy

topic: Famous Basketball, Basketball Success, Basketball Training, Best Basketball, Nba Player

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

topic: Basketball, Sports, Winning, Winning Basketball, You Can Win

- Elgin Baylor

topic: Athlete, Giving, Effort, Nba Player

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

I really don't like talking about diets.

topic: Basketball, Sports, Nba, Loafing, Basketball Player

- Bess Myerson

topic: Talking, Boston Celtics, Nba Player

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Referee, Basketball Training

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

- Elgin Baylor

topic: Basketball, Winning, Coaching, Winning Basketball, Basketball Player

I never thought a role model should be negative.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

topic: Basketball, Role Models, Negative, Being A Role Model, Nba Player

- Wilt Chamberlain

topic: Famous Inspirational, Roots, Goliath, Funny Basketball, Encouraging Basketball

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

- Steve Nash

topic: Basketball, Hands, Creative, Dribble, Nba Player

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

topic: Basketball, Talking, Lord, Talking About Money, Boston Celtics

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Work, Nba Player

Goals determine what you are going to be

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Giving Up, Personal Achievement, Basketball Player

- Julius Erving

topic: Goal, Determine, Motivational Goal, Life Goal, Nba Player

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

topic: Inspirational, Real, Winning, Sports Competition, Famous Basketball

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Sports, Rapper, Best Rapper, Nba Player

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Sports, Running, Winning Basketball, Dunking

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Dream, Basketball Court, Nba Player

- LeBron James

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Games, Basketball Is My Life, Nba Player

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Believe, Individual Goals, Winning Basketball

- Charles Barkley

topic: Basketball, Differences, Shots, Funny Basketball, Good Basketball

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Give It All You Got, Inspirational Hard Work

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Basketball, Player, Years, Nba Player

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Pythagorean Theorem, Funny Basketball, Basketball Player

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

- Kobe Bryant

source: "Terrell Owens answers your questions". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com.

topic: Basketball, Attitude, Winning, Winning Basketball, Basketball And Life

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

- Magic Johnson

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Relationship, Basketball, Hope, Little Help, Little Kid

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

topic: Love, Motivational, Basketball, Famous Basketball, Basketball Success

Goals determine what you're going to be.

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

- Julius Erving

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Determination, Motivational Goal, Life Goal

In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

- Tony Parker

topic: Boys, Player, Nba, Nba Player

I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.

- Kevin Durant

source: "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

topic: Basketball, School, Kids, Peachy, Nba Player

When I come home, I'm not a basketball player, but "dad". While everyone sees me as an NBA player, to my boys, I'm just "dad" and that's very important.

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Basketball, Dad, Home, Nba Player

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

- Tim Duncan

topic: Graduation, Girlfriend, Player, My Girlfriend, Nba Player

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

- Kobe Bryant

topic: Basketball, Men, Player, One In A Million, Nba Player

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

topic: Motivational, Success, Basketball, Being Selfish, Famous Basketball