Basketball Quotes

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. Daniel Holloway

Dating Makes You Want to Die:

I think as men begin to see things that address them, they will feel that they can relate. They can't relate to 'Basketball Wives,' 'Housewives of Atlanta.' I am not judging or criticizing those shows at all; what I am saying is the perspective is not necessarily the male perspective. 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' is inclusive of everyone.

Iyanla Vanzant

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Bob Knight

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Charles Barkley

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he's got no skills.

Charles Barkley

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've won at every level, except college and pro.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm the NBA's best NFL player, and I've always been the sexiest 7-footer in the NBA - for 12 years running.

Shaquille O'Neal

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Michael Jordan

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

Charles Barkley

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Charles Barkley

I'm tired of hearing about money money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Shaquille O'Neal

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

Charles Barkley

Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.

Scottie Pippen

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Michael Jordan

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right.

Charles Barkley

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Michael Jordan