Top 95 Basket Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Basket Quotes from famous people such as DeAndre Jordan, Jairam Ramesh, Austin Rivers, Rudy Gobert, Andrew Carnegie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I get upset when people score on us, especially when it

I get upset when people score on us, especially when it’s an easy basket. Everybody’s super talented in this league, but you want to make it tough for guys.
DeAndre Jordan
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
Jairam Ramesh
Most teams don’t do anything. Really it’s just take the ball out the basket, pick-and-roll, and run.
Austin Rivers
My goal is to protect the basket. Most of the time, I won’t block the shot but I’m going to affect the shot or I’m going to affect the way they think.
Rudy Gobert
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
If we’re interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it.
Guy Finley
I make fun of one of my teammates because she’s like, I’m going to retire.’ And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don’t know. I don’t want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.
Jordan Larson
A beach date would be awesome, with like a little picnic basket, some fruit and bread – just something really, really relaxed and laid-back. I like just relaxing all day, maybe playing in the water a little bit. It’s just totally a day to chill.
Beth Phoenix
Putting even one thing in your shopping basket that’s locally produced or organic makes all the difference. It’s a vote for the future, for animal welfare, for the environment, for your children’s children.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
People who put money in the church basket and people who go to church and pay the pastor: that isn’t real philanthropy; that’s just like you belong to a country club. You pay your dues to belong to that church, so you pay your tithing or whatever it is.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that’s difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
J. D. Vance
I miss being able to have a drink in my local pub, which I can’t do anymore, or being able to go to the shops without every second person staring at me and looking at my basket to see what I’m buying.
Leo Varadkar
When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, ‘Pinhead and Basket Case.’
Ari Aster
I was a basket case, you know? When I got mad, I threw clubs, you know? And if things weren’t going well, I would walk off a course. I think I lost a little bit of respect, but hopefully I’ve gained that back.
John Daly
I don’t want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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.
Le’Veon Bell
I’m not thin, but I’m strong – plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.
Jen Lancaster
It’s hard getting the rhythm when you’re not seeing the ball go through the basket.
DeMarcus Cousins
I’m a basket case. Yeah, you know, I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.
Scott Adsit
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
Sister Parish
You’ve gotta play a head game; especially blocking shots, you’ve gotta make it hard. You’re playing against the best of the best: they’re not gonna go straight to the basket, do a layup. You’ve gotta lure them into some shots.
Karl-Anthony Towns
When you work for Pat Riley, you’re not just putting your hands on the basket and hanging out during practice. He puts you in positions where you have to coach. You have to be enthusiastic and fierce with your preparation and work ethic.
Erik Spoelstra
Obviously I haven’t been shooting the ball as well as I want to, so I just try to take it to the basket and be aggressive and try to make a play.
Gerald Green
Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, ‘I want to live like Clint Eastwood.’ Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?
Don Rickles
Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others’, mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what’s in her basket.
Elizabeth Berg
I’m a playmaker, and I’m going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.
Dwyane Wade
Since everything in my life collapsed in ’89, I was just determined that I wouldn’t cave in. I wouldn’t just go away or become a basket case. I knew the value of me as a person.
Sondra Locke
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don’t do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I’m talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
Ernie Banks
The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I’ve chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!
Carmen Miranda
Everyone has their preferred stroller, their preferred crib, their preferred Moses basket. And they have advice on that too!
Tori Spelling
A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love be

A lot of NBA owners sit at the midcourt. But we love being under the basket and seeing the players.
Stephen Pagliuca
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
Bradley Chicho
Grit may carry risk because it’s about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.
Angela Duckworth
From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s – the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation – military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men.
Kim Young-ha
I remember my grandmother used to always say, ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.’ But when I realized that music was inside of me, I decided I’m putting all my eggs in one basket.
Dianne Reeves
I would say my hardest opponent that I have to face has to be probably Rod Strickland. He’s very strong. He’s a guy who gets to the basket, and when his jump shot is on, it’s really hard to stop him.
Stephon Marbury
I can shoot a basket pretty well.
Erin Heatherton
A ‘wedgie’ is exactly what you think it is. It’s the ball getting stuck between the basket and the backboard.
Baron Davis
When ‘Vida’ got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these ‘Outlander’ things that I’ll never open because it’s like my sacred thing.
Tanya Saracho
For me, an assist is the same as getting a basket.
Nikola Jokic
Trying to guard Kawhi on an island by yourself is tough. You gotta take the basket away and push him to your help. You want him to take a contested shot as far away from the basket as possible, because his mid-range game is phenomenal.
Marcus Smart
We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
Baba Kalyani
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.
Derrick Favors
I was very lucky that I didn’t end up a basket case.
Sophie Dahl
So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
Eric Alterman
I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you’d be like, ‘huh? What the hell is this?’ But if it’s in a fruit basket you’re like, ‘this is nice!’
Demetri Martin
My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, ‘You don’t wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.’ If you wanna do something and be great at it, that’s what you’re going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.
Mohamed Bamba
I come in the game to help my teammates and protect the basket.
Boban Marjanovic
This whole concept of basket chaat is so unique, and it is really yummy!
Nushrat Bharucha
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
Phil Jackson
Instead of me going out and having eight shot attempts with six 3s, let me see if I can have just four 3s and attack the basket and try to get fouls and rebound better.
Gerald Green
My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
Alan Bradley
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn’t moved on me yet.
Julius Erving