Basketball Sayings

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative." Dan Frisby

"The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot." Bill Russell

"This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators." Dick Vertleib

"The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy." Jerry Tarkanian

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up." Red Auerbach

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest.
Until your good is better and your better is best." Tim Duncan

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."
Wilt Chamberlain

"Basketball is the MTV of sports." Sara Levinson

"Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." Bill Vaughn

"Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo." Ogden Nash

"When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro." Larry Bird

"When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams." John Edgar Wideman

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” Bo Jackson

"The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not." Charles Barkley

"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief." James Naismith

"You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball." Bobby Knight