Words matter. These are the best Basketball Court Quotes from famous people such as Jemele Hill, Stephon Marbury, Draymond Green, R. Kelly, Christian Laettner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you’ve ever seen photos of LeBron James away from the basketball court, it’s obvious he takes great pride in his appearance.
When I get on the basketball court, there’s not too many things I can’t do.
I know when I need to be pushing it full speed; I know when I got to probe and allow the flow to open up, because, at the end of the day, on the basketball court, something’s going to open up.
When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, ‘Yeah!’ I didn’t even ask what it was.
The only thing I can control is winning on the basketball court.
Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.
I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.
My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I’m in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn’t know anything about it.
In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn’t bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn’t need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you’re uninsured, it can bankrupt you.
The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and – with one exception, I let them get away with it once – you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I’ve made.
Every time I’m ever in L.A., if I have anytime off – which is rare – I’ll go straight to the basketball court and play. That’s a way for me to escape and get my mind off everything. I’m so competitive, so if I’m playing basketball, all I’m thinking about is winning.
What’s going on in my life, I never bring it to the basketball court.
There’s different types of coaches in life. I don’t have to be a coach on the basketball court. I can be a coach for businesses. I can be a coach for kids. I can be a coach for people who have gone through adversity, because everyone has had some type of damn accident in some form or capacity.
When I step on that basketball court, I’m thinking about basketball, I’m thinking about winning – but there’s so much that goes into thought about how I’m going to open this game up to others. It’s so much more than just basketball.
Most people have been on a baseball diamond and a basketball court. At least once in their life, they’ve walked across a football field. But relatively few people have ever set foot inside a boxing ring.
I feel like me and Batman have a lot in common. Out on the basketball court, I’m a vigilante.
And the question about if I ever dreamed of making the putt on the last hole of a U.S. Open when I was a kid, no, I didn’t. But I hit a lot of game-winning shots on the basketball court when I was a kid.
I like the uniqueness and creativity you can have on a basketball court; there’s always a different way to score. Obviously, you have teammates, so it’s easier to draw up plays, and tennis, you have your patterns and where you should hit based on percentage.
I was a very shy kid. The only place I had confidence was in between the lines of a basketball court.
There’s so much that I want to do. I feel like I’m the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he’s bigger as a businessman.
Every time I’d ever stepped on a basketball court, AAU, middle school, high school, I always thought about the NBA.
My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.
A friend of mine has a house with a basketball court and a pool. The guys go over and play basketball; I lie by the pool and nap in the sun. That defines me. That’s consistent with who I am. I don’t pretend to play basketball because I wanna feel like one of the guys. I wanna lie in the sun and relax.
I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.
I ask everybody, who’s the best between Magic and LeBron? Everyone says Michael’s greatest. But, OK, well, we’ll give him his props. But LeBron is a better athlete, and he can do more than Michael on the basketball court.
I always speak my mind. Whether it be something that’s going on in the world, something on the basketball court, or just something I saw with somebody else that’s not right.
Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I’m not talking about on the basketball court.
The one thing in most communities, the staple is the basketball court. And when that looks good, I think the community feels good about itself, knowing that people care and have an opportunity to not only play there, but it’s also a social meeting place.
Growing up in Terre Haute, Indiana, there’s not a whole lot to do. What I did was I just went to the basketball court at the Boys & Girls Club and literally stayed there all day until my mom got off of work.
