Top 50 Dunk Quotes

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

When I was younger, I was a guy who always wanted to get to the rim and attack the rim and just dunk the basketball.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

LeBron James – I’m such a big basketball fan, and to be in his body for a day and be able to just dunk at will, have that level of court awareness and size, oh my goodness, that would be a treat.

I don’t always have to dunk the ball.

Even if I have five minutes, I’ll just dunk myself in a bath. My kids are the same way – we all bathe both in the morning and at night.

I’m not the most athletic guy who is able to make these crazy layups or dunk all over people. I’m more of a shooter, floater, lane guy – not too much flash. But it gets the job done.

We tied the milk crates on each end of the fence, and we had our own milk crate basketball pickup game, and it was a good time ’cause we could jump off the fence and dunk the basketball. You had to be creative in order to play, and I wanted to play.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

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.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

I get excited after I dunk. I yell and scream, but it’s not yelling and screaming at other players to show them up. It’s the way I play. What I do is have fun on the court.

I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.

If you’re just dunking by yourself, it’s really nothing special. You have to dunk on someone – then you feel like you’re demoralizing them.

You look at today, it’s a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot – a three-point shot – or a dunk.

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.

Guys like to dunk on me. It’s always been that way. I’m 7-6, and guys want to dunk on the 7-6 guy.

I think a lot of people have the idea that all I do is dunk and all I do is make layups.

The best feeling is when you dunk on a big guy bigger than you, then you can give him that look. It shrinks him down a bit!

I like the Slam Dunk contest when it’s good.

Not being in the dunk contest isn’t going to stop me from dunking.

It’s part of the reason I went to Duke. Coach K came to me. He saw everything but the dunks. He was like, ‘It’s a dunk. It’s two points. Who cares?’ He saw every other part of my game that I wanted the world to see.

It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.

When you’re in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

To see a player dunk in women’s college basketball is just amazing. It’s great to see that the game has reached that level now.

When I set picks and rolled to the basket early in my career, either I’d dunk or it’d be an offensive foul where I run the guy over.

If things get slow, I can always drop around to the gym and dunk a few.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

There aren’t many people that can say that they went up against their brother and do it multiple times. Any time I get to I try to take advantage of it. I guess by trying to dunk on him.

When Peter Schneider first approached me about adapting ‘Sister Act’ for the stage, it wasn’t a slam dunk to say yes.

When I was in the dunk contest, DeMar DeRozan actually did the dunk I was about to do before me. That was going to be my next dunk, so I was panicking when I went up for my turn.

When you can’t dunk anymore, you have to find a way to make it into the news.

I embrace old age. Look, I’m never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I’ve learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I’m very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

I feel like I’ve accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

I apologize for being the voice of reason here, but this sports fan has almost zero interest in seeing women dunk a basketball. It’s a nice little novelty act that has a very short life span.

I don’t need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in ‘2001: Space Odyssey.’ That’s how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, ‘Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?’

As a player you do kind of see you might need to get something going. Maybe it’s diving on the ball, diving on the floor for a loose ball. Or maybe it’s something that’ll just energize the team, a lob dunk or a great pass or a great defensive play or an open shot, anything.

I’m not flashy. I’ll do nice things on the floor, but I’m not going to do the really impressive dunk or make the really impressive block. I think that’s what fans enjoy most about coming to basketball games, but that’s not what I provide night in, night out.

I’ll never be in a dunk contest again. I don’t ever want to be a part of it.

You bring a car out, you’re going to win any dunk contest.

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I’ve always wanted to experience that.

I don’t really feel the pressure when people say, ‘You’re changing the game, you’ve gotta keep doing it.’ I feel like I’m adding on. Lisa Leslie dunked, that inspired me to dunk. Candace Parker dunked.

It’s in the Hawks’ DNA to win one, so I want to be a part of the Hawks’ DNA and the Hawks’ lineage of guys who have won a Slam Dunk Championship.

It’s extremely difficult to dink and dunk all the way down the field. Defenses are just too good.

Journalists like to give themselves credit for being on the hunt for ‘the truth.’ But if we embrace this undoubtedly noble but somewhat haughty interpretation of a calling, we inevitably become susceptible to slam dunk answers.

It’s like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream – they could be down 30 points but that’s what they do. Okay, so you made a dunk. Get back down the floor on defense!

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It’s different now.