Sayings | Quotes

Here are some of my favorite Basketball Quotes.

“This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn’t have spectators.” ~Dick Vertleib

“When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.”~ Larry Bird

“You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.”~ Micheal Jordan

“There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.” ~Abe Lemons
The other one I guess is the wrestling of other kind, without the costumes

“Basketball doesn’t build character it reveals it.” ~ Author Unknown

“I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.” ~Tom Tolbert

“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.”~Micheal Jordan

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.” ~ Wilt Chamberlain

“We have a great bunch of outside shooters. Unfortunately, all our games are played indoors ” ~Weldon Drew

“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.” ~Kobe Bryant

“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I’d watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.” ~ Bobby Knight

“Fans never fall asleep at our games, because they’re afraid they might get hit by a pass. ” ~George Raveling

“Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships.” ~Michael Jordan

“Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.”~ Bill Vaughn

“When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.” ~Darryl Dawkins

“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.” ~Bobby Knight

“I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.” ~ Shaquille O’Neal

“We’re shooting 100 percent - 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.” ~Norm Stewart

“I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.”~Dave Barry

Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort. ~Abba Eban

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ~Hank Aaron, 1971

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death. ~Sam Snead

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~William Wordsworth

Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five. ~ Paul Harvey

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.
- Johnny Miller

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~Jack Benny

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ~ Al Boliska

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~Michael Bamberger

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. ~Grantland Rice

“Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good. Unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.” -Bruce Lansky

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” -Jack Lemmon

“When I’m on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, ‘caus I know even God can’t hit a one iron.” -Lee Trevino

This is a soccer quote by Maradona, “I worked hard all my life for this. Those who say I don’t deserve anything, that it all came easy, can kiss my ass.”

This is a soccer quote by Sven-Goran Eriksson, ” The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

A Soccer Quote by Alex Ferguson, “The philosophy of a lot of European teams, even in home matches, is not to give a goal away.”

“Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.”

Soccer quote by Bobby Charlton, “Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.”

Bill Shankley on being first, “If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.”