Quotes by Nba In the NBA, it's about patience. Chauncey Billups nba The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one. Cheo Hodari Coker nba awards winning As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey. Chris Bohjalian phone-calls nba phones I learned very quickly that the NBA is a very rough place, physically and mentally. There's no mercy. Chris Bosh nba rough mercy I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam. Chris Paul nba games sports I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live. Chris Paul nba i-can I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis. Chris Paul nba games football You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white. Chris Rock nba rapper men I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players Chuck Daly nba basketball player Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them Chuck Daly nba basketball player If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work. Chuck Daly nba basketball sports Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there. And—perhaps surprisingly—the only way to find those answers is to study NBA playoff games that happened twenty years ago. For all practical purposes, the voice of Brent Musburger was the pen of Ayn Rand. Chuck Klosterman nba believe years I watch a lot of NBA basketball, especially with the playoffs. Coby Bell nba basketball watches Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call. Craig Ferguson boston nba congratulations I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people. Darryl Dawkins nba people thinking I got hooked up with the NBA Nation and the next thing I knew I was judging the Sprite Slam Dunk Showdown. They needed somebody who can travel on the weekends and go up to eight different cities. Darryl Dawkins nba weekend cities Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA. David Stern nba government player I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year. David Stern nba basketball years Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players. David Stern nba black player There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does Dean Smith nba basketball player «1234567891011»