Love Is Like Basketball Quotes & Sayings

Over-engineering can create products too complex to use. — Abhishek Ratna

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.' — David Halberstam

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters. — Rich Hall

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. — Ambrose Bierce

I realize that although I'd like to make films as a career after I'm done playing, I really love basketball; I really love my career, an opportunity to compete every day and to push myself physically, mentally and emotionally. — Steve Nash

Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and quiet it can see and understand deeper things. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

I like the nucleus that we have. I'm excited. I want to be here as long as possible. It's like family. I love being here. — Kevin Durant

I love to cook like a mad man. If I could do it all over again? I would be a NBA basketball player. — Henry Zebrowski

I love the big, like, basketball sweats ... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones. — Brad Goreski

Acting on desire is more like a craft, a science, an art. It takes careful mindful practice. Be patient and quiet. Listen, observe, take notes. Figure out what you want, privately, and then choose to want it, publicly. Put your desire out in the open. I want to go swimming. I want to bake bread. I want to paint a picture. I want to build a chair. I want to write a book. You act and then you fail. Over and over. And it's better to start failing when you're young, when all you lose is an ice-cream cone or a basketball game or an afternoon of fun. When you're older, the stakes are higher. If adults don't know how to want, then they lose a love, a career, a life. — David Barringer

All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak. — Stefan G. Bucher

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) — David Halberstam

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me. — Gilbert Arenas

When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you! — Mike Krzyzewski

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that. — Robert Griffin III

A mind stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Progressive Physician, Author — Cary Ellis

I think in college they give you a chance to really mature, form yourself and build relationships. I think that's what a team is all about, and when you build relationships, it shows on the court and that brings out success. I love the whole attitude of staying in college to take advantage of a free education. I just felt like Kentucky wasn't a fit for me. The whole attitude and approach of the one-and-dones, that's good for them, that's their decision. But I think [Duke] Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] is a guru of basketball. I want to learn from one of the best. — Jabari Parker

I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here. — LeBron James

Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words."
"It makes them real, lord. It makes them last. — Conn Iggulden

And I didn't fall in love with the game of basketball just because it was me playing. I fell in love with it Because I got guys like this, Like these guys every single day That push me to be the best player I can be. — Kevin Durant

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out. — Steven Yeun

This is a mind over matter thing. We have to find it within ourselves to play for two hours. We love the game, so it's not like we're doing something we hate. We're doing something we love. — Kay Yow

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these. — Tom Glazer

I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift. — Ally Carter

I definitely like to stay active. I'm a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live. — Brendan Dooling

My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. — Chris Brown

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow

In every person, there is a doer and a devil. With every passing days, the doer dies and a devil has to rise. — Santosh Kalwar

You know how when you step on court your coach is like "go go go!"? And all throughout you just keep telling yourself to hit harder and harder and keep at it? You know how much you treasure those five-minute timeouts? You know how good you feel at the end of a session? You know how you're glad you're tired? No pills, no shots, just plain energy. I want to work like that. Whether I have to write ten thousand words or send five hundred emails, brainstorm for hours at a time, I want to have that energy. To keep fighting. To know it's all worth it.
Oh, yeah. That's my perfect day. — Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am. — LeBron James

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political. — Pearl S. Buck

What you do doesn't define you. You can't let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved. — Taylor York

Finally, the last point that can kill your spark is Isolation. As you grow older you will realize you are unique. When you are little, all kids want Ice cream and Spiderman. As you grow older to college, you still are a lot like your friends. But ten years later and you realize you are unique. What you want, what you believe in, what makes you feel, may be different from even the people closest to you. This can create conflict as your goals may not match with others. And you may drop some of them. Basketball captains in college invariably stop playing basketball by the time they have their second child. They give up something that meant so much to them. They do it for their family. But in doing that, the spark dies. Never, ever make that compromise. Love yourself first, and then others. — Chetan Bhagat

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal

And so it came to pass, as you would imagine, since only the successful prophets are remembered. — Hilary Mantel