Top Basketball Quotes
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something
Dennis Rodman
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
That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight 
84% of people like this quote
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something
Dennis Rodman
72% of people like this quote
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
71% of people like this quote
That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.
Mike Krzyzewski
63% of people like this quote
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny
61% of people like this quote
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley
60% of people like this quote
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.
Merlin Olsen
60% of people like this quote
I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley
60% of people like this quote
I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you.
Bill Laimbeer
59% of people like this quote
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
John Wooden
59% of people like this quote
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