Top 111 Play Basketball Quotes

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.

As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.

It’s hard to play basketball without a point guard – it’s an important position.

I know I used to play basketball every day, whether it was for fun with my older brother or if it was organized basketball on teams.

I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.

We know the WNBA is not making billions of dollars like the NBA, but we want to be in a place where we don’t have to play basketball all year round.

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn’t afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it’s cool if she’s a tomboy.

My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I’m too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn’t know my story. Because if they did, they’d know that anything is possible.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn’t have. He couldn’t play basketball because he didn’t have tennis shoes – so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

I think it’s a travesty that the NBA can’t just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It’s just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

The most satisfying way to play basketball is when you can get the best out of everyone on the court.

I have the most amazing job. I play basketball and keep working at it and trying to get better.

For years, I’ve felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don’t play basketball, I can’t dance, and I’d rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

I just want to go out there and play basketball, do it at a high level, put us in a position to win.

It gets frustrating when you play basketball for your whole life and then it gets taken from you for a little bit.

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!’

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

When I was 13 years old, that’s when my team assigned me – and I wound up living, like, six hundred kilometers from my home to play basketball.

I always knew I would do music. At first, I wanted to play basketball, and when I let go of that dream when I was 11, I pretty much knew I was going to be in music.

Since I’ve been five, people asked me if we’re related. It is usually the third question in the line of questions. What’s your name? Sue Bird. Oh, what do you do? I play basketball. Are you related to Larry Bird? That’s how it goes. I guess it could be worse, though, since he is a legend and all.

I play basketball to win a championship. That championship is everything to me. And that’s what gets people to buy in to your brand – being a winner.

The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.

If you don’t look at my skin color and we just go play basketball, you’re not going to say I’m a white kid that can just shoot.

Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn’t know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He’s not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

I always felt like I needed to play basketball.

I thought it was destiny that I was going to play basketball.

Most people won’t play basketball with NBA players, because you have to be in the NBA, but you don’t have to be a pro to play against pro gamers. There’s a chance they could load in and play the same game as them.

I like to play basketball. Sometimes if someone takes that away from you, you’ve got to get in your feelings for a reason.

I’m not trying to be dirty. I’m out there to play basketball and not fight. But if it comes to the situation, one thing, know this, I’m never going to back down from anybody.

I’m an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn’t impact me emotionally.

I play basketball. I need a jersey and I need some shorts that I feel comfortable in. I’m trying to hoop, not go to a fashion show on the court.

My mom wanted me to play baseball. She didn’t want me to play basketball.

That’s one thing I tell young kids is watch Chris Paul play basketball. He doesn’t just play the game. He’s trying to beat the game.

I was a mamma’s boy. She had me at 15, so we were close enough in age where we could play basketball against each other. We used to play one-on-one and race in the yard all the time.

I think it’s important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I’m a little bit scattered, but it’s so I can convincingly play all these characters.

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn’t ruined if I lose. I’m always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that’s something that’s nice about maturing.

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.

I can be a friend from a million miles away. I can play basketball in China. The only thing I can’t do is be a father. I missed my kids’ first basketball game. I missed birthdays. I can talk to you from a million miles away, but I was missing the dad part of life.

I’m living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

I play basketball for love and money, and they come in interchangeable order, depending on how things are going when you ask the question.

My job is to play basketball. That’s what I get paid to do, right? Whatever city that’s in, it won’t matter. I’m just blessed it’s in O.K.C.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls – I had no chance in either – I found my comfort in Jesus.

Everybody was pressuring me to play basketball, so I was like, ‘OK, I’ll do it.’

I’m a big golfer, so in the offseason, that’s all I do – golf and play basketball. But during the season, I like to go bowling, watch movies. I love going to the movies. I go to the movies in every city we go. And when I’m at home I play video games all day.

Everybody has their job, their speciality and talents – I can play basketball but I need somebody to help me out with my financial situation.

I just want to be myself, just be healthy and play basketball.

In all honesty, I was hoping to use football as a path to play basketball in college.

My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set – he’d bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, ‘Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don’t even think about the camera.’

I love sports. When I’m not playing, I’m watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn’t at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.

Honestly, I don’t play basketball games. I’m more into fighting games like ‘Mortal Kombat’ or RPGs.

I absolutely loved basketball. All I ever wanted to do was play basketball.

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn’t going to work out how I’d envisioned it.

Even before I made my high school team, I’d say I want to be a NBA player, and people laughed at me with, ‘Get out of here, you ain’t going to be a NBA player. You don’t even play basketball.’

That’s why I play basketball. To play a lot of minutes, and to help my team win.

I really didn’t want to play basketball for the longest time, but I just wouldn’t stop growing. But I always wanted to be a professional soccer player.

I just go out there and play basketball. I’ll let everything else handle itself.

I want my son to never know the mommy who would rather watch him play basketball than play with him.

No, I don’t get nervous when I play basketball.

I’m pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.

My dad played for… the Villanueva de la Serena, so I guess that’s why I play basketball instead of soccer.

I’m a physical guy. I play basketball, and I rock climb.

When I finish my school work for the day, I like to go play basketball, ride my bike or skateboard, play video games, or go free running.