Top 10 Basketball Quotes

1. Basketball is like photography, if you don't focus, all you have is the negative. ~ Dan Frisby

2. Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. ~ Dr. James Naismith, inventor of basketball

3. First master the fundamentals. ~ Larry Bird

4. If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life. ~ Isiah Thomas

5. They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. ~ Earvin 'Magic' Johnson
 
6. What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop. ~ Woody Allen, in "Annie Hall"

7. What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player. ~ John Wooden

8. When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do. ~ Darryl Dawkins

9. When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right. ~ Tony Alfonso 

10. You don't play against opponents. You play against the game of basketball. ~ Bobby Knight