#basketball

You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He said checking it to me. "Show me that love." So chessy, i thought. But as i felt it, solid against my hands, i did feel something. I wasn't sure it was love. Maybe what remained of it, though, whatever that might be. "All right," I said. "Let's play. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#love #love

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#before #bus #go #hours #many

Once I grew from 6'1" to about 6'6", by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl. ↗

— Eric Williams

#always #basketball #because #girl #going

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#because #dunk #i #just #just because

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball. ↗

— Larry Bird

#down #gets

The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball. ↗

— James Lafferty

#basketball #brett #cast #environment #gets

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#amount #basketball #coach #college #derived

With me and basketball, it became part of me. ↗

— Mike Krzyzewski

#became #me #part