All Quotes

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
‐‐ Yao Ming

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
‐‐ Phil Jackson

Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.
‐‐ Dean Smith

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.
‐‐ Rebecca Lobo

Basketball is basketball.
‐‐ Oscar Robertson

Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
‐‐ Bob Beamon

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.
‐‐ Stephen Curry

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
‐‐ Hakeem Olajuwon

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
‐‐ Red Auerbach

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
‐‐ Abhishek Bachchan

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion.
‐‐ Rick Pitino

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
‐‐ LeBron James

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
‐‐ Bill Walton

Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.
‐‐ Adam Silver

Basketball is what got me out of the projects. It got my momma the house she never had, the car she never had. Nobody is going to get the best of me. You might score more points than me, but you're going to know you were in a dogfight.
‐‐ Kenyon Martin

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
‐‐ Steve Nash

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.
‐‐ Matt Emmons

Basketball, man: it is a land of giants.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
‐‐ J. R. Moehringer

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete!
‐‐ Chris Webber

Basketball used to be my top priority.
‐‐ Derek Fisher

Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.
‐‐ Curtis Granderson

Basketball was my whole life until I was 20 years old. All I knew was basketball. Then came golf, and I thought that's all I wanted to do then.
‐‐ Kip Moore

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
‐‐ Dikembe Mutombo

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
‐‐ Jessica Williams

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.
‐‐ Brie Larson

Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.
‐‐ Suzi Quatro

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
‐‐ Stanley Clarke

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
‐‐ Peter Hook

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
‐‐ Thomas Moore

Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook... so don't touch that door!
‐‐ Alton Brown

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
‐‐ Selma Blair

Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
‐‐ Candice Olson

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.
‐‐ Edward Snowden

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
‐‐ Andre Balazs

Batman and Superman are probably my favorite superheroes - apart from Constantine.
‐‐ Matt Ryan

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are both a bit introverted. In 'Flashpoint,' Thomas Wayne thinks Barry is crazy, but Barry thinks Thomas is crazy. It'll be really fun seeing those two trying to figure things out.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

'Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
‐‐ Bob Kane

'Batman Returns' was a huge movie and one of my favorites growing up. It's incredible.
‐‐ Robin Lord Taylor

'Batman' was scary.
‐‐ Marc Webb

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
‐‐ Gilbert White

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
‐‐ John Berryman

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
‐‐ Jeremy Grantham