Basketball Game Quotes

I am very happy to be here in the NBA.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.

I'm going to watch basketball regardless of whether I coach or watch it on TV.

I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.

I'm definitely rooting for the Heat.

You can't take a night off in the NBA.

The idea of playing the point and leading a team to the NBA championship is what drove me to get up every day and work on my game as a kid.

If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!

My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

It was crazy, like I watched him on TV growing up. And you know, I'd be a little starstruck sometimes, because we'd be in a game, and then you know, I'm looking over at Coach for the play. And I'm lookin' like, Man, that's Coach K right there! He's my coach.

I learned 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought, like, Coach would be like, 'You're not focused on the game!' So I never really asked.

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.

You might be a redneck if... your high school basketball game got rained out.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

When I went to Boston, I tell people all the time, being able to be in that arena with those banners hanging up, it excited me.

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

You're going to play me different if I have the ball, even if I'm at 75, 80 percent, just for the simple fact that you do not want me to make that three. That's helping my team out.

On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.

40-minute game at Duke - they got soft rims - I'd probably score 84 or 85. I wouldn't pass the ball. I wouldn't even think about passing it. It would be like a 'NBA Live' or an 'NBA 2K7' game: you just shoot with one person.