Texas Basketball

The people of Texas want us to secede! - William Clements

Sports do not build character; they reveal it. - John Wooden

When I'm feeling athletic, I go to a sports bar. - Paul Clisura

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults

Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball. - Giannis Antetokounmpo

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing. - James Carville

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. - John J. Plomp

I'm super laid back. I'm from Texas. I love my family. - Selena Gomez

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. - Bill Vaughn

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. - Piper Perabo

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.' - Kinky Friedman

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. - Gerald R. Ford

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. - Bobby Knight

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

So like any football or basketball coach, you always believe you're going to win. - Colin Powell

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London

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

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes. - Imelda Marcos

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it. - Ann Richards

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? - John Gunther

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. - Shaquille O'Neal

Texas could exist without the United States but the United States cannot exist without Texas. - Sam Houston

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. - Elvis Presley

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. - Willie Nelson

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

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. - Rita Rudner

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. - Ian Fleming

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that's even stronger than a handshake in Texas. - Rick Perry

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. - George Burns

Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale

The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players. - Stephen Curry

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. - Bill Gates

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard

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