#basketball

I always wanted to be a basketball player. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#ball player #basketball #basketball player #i #i always

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

— Mike Krzyzewski

#became #me #part

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself. ↗

— Candace Parker

#been #career #myself #now #people

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#basketball #football #olympic #problems #sports

Basketball is basketball. ↗

— Oscar Robertson

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#jumping #like #money #out #politics

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#gift #greatest #greatest gift #i #life

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns. ↗

— Will McDonough

#athlete #basketball #brown #browns #ever

I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#always #angry #bad #basketball #best

Now, granted, Howard doesn't fit the conventional psychological profile of a rebounder - that of the no-nonsense, utilitarian "dirty work" specialist. Rather, this is a guy who sings Beyoncé at the free throw line, who quotes not Scarface but Finding Nemo, whose idea of humor is ordering 10 pizzas to be delivered to another player's hotel room, or knocking on teammates' doors and sprinting off down the hall, giggling. He goofs around during practice, during press conferences and during team shootarounds, for which Magic coach Stan Van Gundy has had to institute a no-flatulence rule because, as teammate Rashard Lewis says, "Dwight really likes to cut the cheese. ↗

— Chris Ballard

#humor #nonfiction #art