Quotes of: Basketball-player Keyword

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is no...

Iyanla Vanzant

I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing a...

Dirk Nowitzki

If I had not played basketball and made the millions of dollars that I had made, I would never have been able to build a hospital in Congo. It started in 1997, and 10 years later I was able to unveil the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named after my ...

Dikembe Mutombo

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass.' I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with...

Jamie Foxx

I played football; I was a running back, and I took a hit, and I had a hairline fracture in my leg which no one spotted, and I was playing basketball all winter and it got worse. And then I was long jumping, about 20 feet, and I landed one time and t...

Nick McDonell

[first lines] [the Jets dance across the streets of New York, eventually coming to a playground where they toss around a basketball. The ball is intercepted by Bernardo, leader of the Sharks] Riff: [snaps fingers at Bernardo] Come on. [Bernardo drops...

West Side Story

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it e...

Terry Crews

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evol...

Michael Jordan

I have way too many hobbies. I play guitar, and my buddies and I record music in a studio in my house. I have a couple of vintage Jeeps I'm always working on, fixing up. And I ride horses - I grew up on a horse ranch - and play basketball. I need to ...

Riley Smith

I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learne...

Andrew Luck

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Jerry Weintraub

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone.

Ken Venturi

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Blaine Lee

It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.

Ivan Lendl

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

Jurgen Klinsmann

The best thing I've ever heard another player say is, 'I hate playing against you.'

Logan Mankins

The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

Michael Jordan

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

Tiffeny Milbrett

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Vijay Singh

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

Phil Mickelson