Basketball Quotations

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Basketball Quote - Reporter - Bill Russell

"Young man, you have the question backwards."
--Bill Russell, after a reporter asked him how he would have fared against Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

Basketball Quote - True Joy - Phil Jackson

 

"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."

                                    - PHIL JACKSON, Sacred Hoops

Basketball Quote - Boy - Bill Vaughn

"Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up."

                                                                      ~Bill Vaughn

Basketball Quote - Superhero - Lebron James

“I’m like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.”
   - Lebron James

   

Basketball Quote - Things - John Wooden

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

Basketball Quote - Invention - James Naismith

 " The invention of basketball was not an accident.  It was developed to meet a need.  Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."  - James Naismith

Basketball Quote - Victory - Phil Jackson

"Yes, victory is sweet, but it doesn't necessarily make life any easier the next season or even the next day."

Basketball Quote - Incompetence - Bill Russell

"Incompetence should not be confined to one sex."
--on his opinion of female referees

Basketball Quote - Chasing Perfection - Kobe Bryant

"What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection."