Ball Player Quotes

There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either.
Michael Jordan

Greatest, Basketball, Perfect

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
Michael Jordan

Time, Game, Basketball

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

Important, Person, Basketball

A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
Jason Kidd

Basketball, Friends, Late

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton

Father, Football, Times

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

Hurt, Woman, Baseball

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
Kim Kardashian

Amazing, Game, Basketball

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
Lou Holtz

Sports, Football, Play

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
David Duchovny

Basketball, Dream, Player

If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
Benjamin Carson

Football, Basketball, Same

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
Tiger Woods

Basketball, Times, Stand

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.
Casey Stengel

Successful, Game, Player

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O'Neal

Business, Famous, Job

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.
Joe DiMaggio

Family, Made, Why

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
Jeanne Moreau

Love, Women, Football

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.
John Malkovich

Good, Great, Truth

I was a very good baseball player and football player as a kid.
John Malkovich

Good, Football, Baseball

I always wanted to be a basketball player.
Ronnie James Dio

Basketball, Wanted, Player

Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.
Jay Leno

Good, Basketball, May

I wanted to be a football player. Football is a sport that I love, but the more I started playing basketball, the more I started dreaming of playing in the NBA.
Dwyane Wade

Love, Football, Basketball

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
Brett Favre

Failure, Successful, Football

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
Ricky Williams

Football, Person, Player

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
Ricky Williams

Great, Yourself, Football

I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
Ricky Williams

Someone, Football, College

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Ricky Williams

Human, Football, Treat

I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
Ricky Williams

Travel, Football, Person

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Shaquille O'Neal

Pain, Football, Basketball

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.
Channing Tatum

Love, Hope, Someone

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
Ryne Sandberg

Love, Baseball, Play

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.
Lionel Messi

Good, Best, Hope

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