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Basketball Quotes

"In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way."

"I love sharing the court with my teammates, helping them achieve their dreams."

"I like to get out there and get my hands dirty. I like to run the court."

"Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing."

"I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot."

"We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren’t really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water."

"I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and it results in a mistake. I hate that feeling of letting the team down."

"I’m like Shaq, I don’t see nobody"

"Basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him."

"When I have the chance to guard Michael Jordan, I want to guard him. I want him. It’s the ultimate challenge."

"Hi, I’m Kobe Bryant. And I have decided to take my talent to, uh—I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA."

"I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball."

"Take myself out the game, I'm a triple threat"

"I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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