American Basketball Player Quotes

Michael Jordan

Magic Johnson

Kobe Bryant

R. Kelly

LeBron James

Shaquille O'Neal

Wilt Chamberlain

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody - somewhere - was practicing more than me.

I'm still glad that we didn't shake their hands. They were whiners and criers. Piss on them.

At its most basic root, the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

Of Kobe Bryant:

I've been quoted in the past and I will continue to be quoted; I think he's the best player in our league right now.

My mustache speaks to me... it says, 'Together, we will return the NBA to the glory of its mustache days. Pistol Pete, Kurt Rambis and Clyde Frazier.' And in the offseason, my mustache and I will drive around in a muscle car solving mysteries. Times will be good. My mustache is very wise.

Close-out games are actually kind of easy. Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning, so we want to come out and establish an early lead and protect it.

Admiting to using steroids:

It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. I want you to know that I have been dishonest and you have the right to be angry with me. I have let them [my family] down, I have let my country down and I have let myself down.

I grew up in a classical music household. My dad is a phenomenal musician who can play any and all instruments, can sight read, can play by ear.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

On his reception by other players when he returned from retirement to an All-Star game:

It was the first game ever called on account of hugs.

You might listen to black music, and you might watch black athletes, but that doesn't mean you'll be willing to talk to that black guy who just moved down the street.

Charles Barkley

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

My uniqueness reveals something of Christ that no one else does.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

In a team sport like basketball, every time you help somebody else, you help yourself.

Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.

In putting together your standards, remember that it is essential to involve your entire team. Standards are not rules issued by the boss; they are a collective identity. Remember, standards are the things that you do all the time and the things for which you hold one another accountable.

Mike Krzyzewski

Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

I haven't seen one guy beat five people yet. It needs to be done collectively.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.