Top 70 Dribble Quotes

I’ve come to a point in my career where it doesn’t matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.

I’m a pretty athletic big, pretty versatile for how big I am. And I can dribble down the court when I want to put my point guard pants on.

You don’t get the ball and dribble; you get it and move it.

I like to dribble and give the decisive pass to my teammates.

If you never pass or dribble or go on the outside, cutting inside will stop working.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can’t dribble. But, in my head, I was always a guard… I was like, ‘Yo, I’m tall, but I don’t care. I’m not no big man.’

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

I am capable of dribbling the ball. I can dribble. And I can play a little defense!

I realised, ‘I’m not going to dribble past five payers and score’, so for me it was about having something different, and being two-footed was it. I pride myself on that now.

It’s very important to know how to dribble and pass and catch and cut at a very high level if you want to be a good basketball player.

Footwork is the foundation to my offensive game. Being able to move, pivot around and dribble better were the big things I wanted to add to my game, as well as stretching out my game so I can shoot away from the basket better.

I’m way more comfortable off the dribble, shooting the ball of the dribble, making a play off the dribble.

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.

I just like to play, to pass the ball and dribble.

I make a dribble or a simple pass, knowing that if I lose the ball near the area, the opponent can score. I am aware of what I do on the pitch, but I always do it to help the team. That’s why, occasionally ,I also boot the ball into the stands.

I’m one of those players who loves to dribble the ball, to run at people.

At least before my hip replacement, I had a quick first step. I could get by you off the dribble. My business game is the same way. I can turn an idea into a business before you know it’s going to be important. My first step will blow by you.

I’m not Giovinco. I don’t get the ball and dribble past three players.

Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there’s no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble. No, I’m not going to do that.

I think my versatility is a big strength. I don’t think anybody can guard me, just because I’m 6’10 and can dribble and play point. If I have a little guy on me, I take him to the post. For me to be able to then pass the ball, it helps me a lot.

My dad always taught me the fundamentals of the game: dribble, pass, shoot. So I never relied heavily on any one thing until I got to college, when I was just adjusting to the team.

I’m never going to be seen as an attacking midfielder who’s going to dribble past anyone, create untold chances, and score lots of goals, but going forward is something I’ve always enjoyed doing.

I’m not the quickest guy in the world, so I figured if I beat a guy off the dribble, I kind of want to get my space and get my shot up fairly quick – not rush my shot or anything, but just get to my spot where I can make it and they have no chance of contesting it.

You get measured by how fast you run or how high you can jump or how you can dribble, and I just wasn’t that kind of player.

Really I can do everything on the court: pass, shoot, dribble, score.

Dudes are coming at me every day; I’m playing different positions on the defensive end. I’m really working on that, because that’s the next level. In the league, everybody can dribble.

I run my routes like a crossover dribble. It’s about taking angles, faking one way but going the other, and being savvy. And then, instead of running to the basket, I’m running away from the defender.

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We’re just a big ball of… blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don’t dribble away on the floor.

There are certain guys in the league that get their rhythm off their dribble.

I always dribble for a reason, and I always head for the goal.

I’ve been working on a lot of things, just knocking down the three consistently, making smarter moves off the pick-and-roll, improving my dribble a lot.

In the NBA, there’s always a guy who is only around because he can jump. He doesn’t have a clue about the fundamentals. I learn more from the WNBA. They know how to dribble, how to pivot, how to use the shot fake.

Play the pass at the right moment – not on a dry pitch and not hitting it hard enough. We don’t have to accept it; that was a mistake – no goalkeeper should dribble in this situation.

No, I’m not going to shut up and dribble. I don’t care if you take my contract, I don’t care if you say that I’m this or that, I’m human. I have a heart. I have a pulse. I have emotions. I’m a man. I have kids. I’m a father. I have a wife. I have friends. I have loved ones.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

When I was young, I never shot. I always wanted to dribble the ball in the goal.

I laughed and laughed so much my lip burst open and collagen filler started to dribble out. I’d had a bit too much filler put in the week before.

That’s something a point guard can always work on, with keeping his dribble alive a little better. It’s so important.

Because I was fast, technical, and could dribble well, it was always the easy thing to label me just a winger and have me stick to that.

I’m not a guy who makes five or 10 moves. I’m just more of a simple, straight-line driver, just try to be crafty with my dribble and keep it tight.

On a lot of teams that bottom guy, that weakside defender, is critical if something happens and you’re broken down off the dribble or you’re beat. That person has got to be there.

When I’m on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it’s a simple, beautiful dribble that also has a point.

Oh man, I am so happy when I get to dribble the ball.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it’s really slim pickin’s out there. There’s a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

You can dribble on carpet. I grew up in Queens, and we had carpet in our living room. And actually, even in some of these gymnasiums where we’re playing the game, we’re on carpet. If you’re 12 or 13 years old, you’ve dribbled on the carpet in your mom’s house.

Obviously Diego likes to play a bit further forward than me and then you have got Eden who is a player that likes to come inside and dribble, and his final pass is fantastic.

Even when I was young, I had a reputation for it. I would play with my friends outside, and I was doing all the things you see now a long time ago. I’ve always done the flip-flap, even when I was young. Stepovers, dummies – I love to dribble. If you speak with my friends, they will say I’m the same Riyad.

I’m the only black man you ever met who couldn’t dribble a basketball.

When I was little I got to dribble the ball around while my older brother Paul, who played for a long time for Kilmarnock, my dad and my uncle Jimmy – who was at Celtic as a kid and played with Morton and Cambridge City – kicked it hard and I got punted out the way. But gradually I got allowed into the game.

At Arsenal, all we think about is how to attack, how to score, how to dribble, how to make a pass. We do not think so much about defence. Probably, for results, this is no good: but I like it.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you’re 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

It’s not to say I don’t want African players to hustle and play hard, but I also wanted to show we can do more. We can dribble. We can have high IQs. We can pass the ball. We can shoot. I wanted to make sure I changed the perception.

People expect you to dribble past 10 players and put the ball in the back of the net.

The greatest set shooter ever? Larry Joe Bird. Period. The best coming off screen? Reginald Miller. And the best off the dribble? Steph Curry.