Top 100 All-Star Quotes

Words matter. These are the best All-Star Quotes from famous people such as Ben Wallace, Avery Bradley, Jamal Crawford, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Colin Cowherd, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It feels good to just play in the All-Star Game. To be

It feels good to just play in the All-Star Game. To be the first un-drafted player to start, I think it speaks volumes for those guys trying to make to the league that there are always opportunities if you just stay prepared.
Ben Wallace
Of course I feel like any player that plays this game should want to reach the highest level and the highest accolades, which includes the All-Star Game. So, yeah, I would be dumb not to want to be an All-Star.
Avery Bradley
I’ve never made an All-Star Game, but I’ve always had my peers’ and coaches’ respect around the league.
Jamal Crawford
You can never come back fresher after the all-star break. I always try to do what I do, try to take care of my body, get some weights in, feel a little bit stronger and ready to push through 25 games.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
All-Star games don’t resonate with me.
Colin Cowherd
I better make the All-Star team, and I better start.
Larry Johnson
When I was younger, I used to dunk and they criticized me for the dunk. They said I couldn’t be an All-Star because I dunked too much. So in order to get the respect from the people, I felt like I had to change my game.
Shawn Kemp
Tim Duncan and Steve Smith made me feel like an All-Star.
Stephen Jackson
I want to have a long career in the NBA. First, I want to be an All-Star, and hopefully one day I can win a ring with the New York Knicks.
Kristaps Porzingis
As a player, you look where I’ve come from, averaging ‘X’ amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.
Jimmy Butler
I just work and continue to do whatever I can do to get to the highest level I can get. If that’s an All-Star? Sure, I’ll take it. But I don’t have my mind set on that.
Pascal Siakam
I’m not in this league to be an All-Star. I’m not in this league to make the Hall of Fame. I’m not in this league to make the all-defensive team.
Rasheed Wallace
Some players thrive in the open-style, AAU games – the all-star games. But when it comes to playing in an actual system and having to ‘think’ the game, you see where some guys separated themselves.
D’Angelo Russell
My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it’s about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.
Brian J. White
For me, definitely, to make the All-Star team, that’s something that I’m always going to remember.
Goran Dragic
It was never about trying to make the All-Star Game. It’s about being back at that high level to help a team win.
LaMarcus Aldridge
After MIP, it was like, ‘OK, there is way more.’ We thinking MVP, we thinking All-Star.
Pascal Siakam
I think the guys that get to the All-Star Game deserve a lot of credit. They deserve their opportunity to get out there and let the baseball fandom see them.
Tony La Russa
It’s not like I was a one-of-a-kind talented guy at 18 who made it to the NBA and have been playing in All-Star Games ever since.
Manu Ginobili
To hear people mentioning me for All-Star is an unbelievable feeling.
Goran Dragic
When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.
Ashley Greene
Any opportunity to be at the All-Star Game is a unique experience. It’s an honor and a special time with the other players we don’t ordinarily get to spend time with. It’s a fun couple of days and something that goes by quickly in my experience. I try to enjoy it.
Buster Posey
It’s a privilege to be an All-Star for the second straight year.
Paul Millsap
Everybody would love to be able to be great and make it to the NBA All-Star Game as a rookie. I mean, that is everybody’s goal.
Greg Oden
It’s a real accomplishment for me, personally, to be named to the All-Star team.
Andre Iguodala
Watching a guy go from not having ever played an NBA game before to growing up and developing into an All-Star player, that’s probably the most rewarding thing that you can do as a coach.
Dwane Casey
I just finished ‘Butter’ for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast – Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone – all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I’ve gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. ‘Butter’ is about butter carving in Iowa.
Ashley Greene
I’m an athletic junkie – I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I’ve become buddies with a bunch of athletes.
Jesse Williams
Anytime you go to the All-Star Game, you recognize that it’s special. It’s an experience that you don’t want to pass up.
Barry Trotz
I feel super-proud of my team and myself; like, I have an all-star MVP team. They’re so sweet, and they love me, and I love them. It’s a very respectful, lovely relationship.
King Princess
All-Star Weekend always treats me great. I love the atmosphere that comes with it.
Cam’ron
I've always believed in myself and I've always put the

I’ve always believed in myself and I’ve always put the work in to get to not only be an all-star but be an all-star for a long time. That’s my goal. I think about these things and I feel like I have the ability to do it.
Pascal Siakam
You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.
Nick Johnson
My wife is an Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star, ‘Jeopardy!’ champion, and Rhodes Scholarship finalist who was sung to by President Clinton, sung about by Ludacris, and serenaded on ‘Sesame Street’ by a chorus of Muppets.
Steve Rushin
It’s a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.
Christian McCaffrey
It’s my first All-Star experience. It’s pretty dope seeing all the super stars and all the big-time names.
John Collins
By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
Irv Kupcinet
For me to become an All-Star for two straight years and now to become an All-Star starter, I most definitely proved the doubters wrong. It’s an unbelievable moment in my career.
Kemba Walker
To be in the All-Star Weekend is something that’s special.
Jimmer Fredette
Just looking down the bench and when you’re on the court, you start to realize, ‘I’m an All-Star.’
Bam Adebayo
I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there’s 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he’s calling me every night to go out with him. I didn’t know how to say no.
Stephen Jackson
I’m going to the All-Star Game as an Oriole and as a shortstop. It’s just always a blessing. I thank God.
Manny Machado
I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.
Elizabeth Banks
This is basketball. It’s All-Star and all that stuff. That’s not what it’s really about. It’s about making a difference and impacting the kids and helping people in need. That’s what it’s about.
Rudy Gobert
I don’t want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.
Reggie Lewis
I just don’t want to go to the All-Star game to be in the dunk contest and go home. I want to be there competing in the game with a couple of my teammates.
DeAndre Jordan
When you have a guy like Chris Paul, who’s the best point guard in the world, saying I should be an All-Star, and other coaches and players coming up to me and saying I should be an All-Star, it’s an unbelievable compliment.
Jamal Crawford
People ask me if I would like to make the All-Star team. I mean, seriously, who wouldn’t?
Jrue Holiday
It definitely would be an honor to be an All-Star. But I have no say in it. It’s not up to me. It’s up to the fans and coaches.
Kemba Walker
If you make the All-Star team and you get the label next your name, for whatever reason, people will think, ‘Oh, yeah, he’s good now.’ But if you don’t have it, it’s, ‘Well, he’s never made it, he’s never done anything, so why would you think he’s any better than this guy or the next guy.’
Mike Conley Jr.
I frankly think the NBA All-Star game has run its course, the whole dunk contest… The game – if those guys actually played hard in that game, it’d be the best watch ever.
Jeff Van Gundy
Growing up, I was always that kid that kinda watched All-Star Weekend on TV, every event.
Kyle Kuzma
Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
John Madden
I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.
Frank Thomas
You have to figure out that balance between younger players and veteran players, star players, and All-Star players, really a team effort. And then you have to be lucky.
Masai Ujiri
I think what’s bad is that there aren’t centers in the All-Star voting anymore.
DeAndre Jordan
I played three seasons when I was in MLS before I went to Europe, and every year, I was able to be selected for the All-Star, which was an honor.
Clint Dempsey
I think, thinking back earlier in my career, if I would have been told that I would be starting an All-Star Game at age 34, I’d be pretty happy about that.
Buster Posey
I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I’m a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.
Frank Thomas
Unfortunately I couldn’t play as much as I wanted in Los Angeles, because I was playing behind an All-Star.
Eric Bledsoe
I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.
Robert Horry
I love being an All-Star and continue to want to be an All-Star because that just shows you my talent and who I am. But I’ve always been a team player.
Kyle Lowry
I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an

I said before, I want to be a starter, I want to be an all-star – not a borderline all-star.
Pascal Siakam
The goal is to win a championship, but when you win and you play pretty well, and you start hearing ‘All-Star’ and ‘Sixth Man.’ That’s really unbelievable.
Jamal Crawford