Basketball Dedication Quotes

I've been shooting my whole life. I don't remember a team where I wasn't playing basketball. It's something I really enjoy, and I shoot for hours at a time.

There's no nights off in the NBA. That's what makes it so special. That's why everyone loves the game.

When I grew up, I never - I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.

I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.

It's so much harder to make the NBA than people think it is.

I know that I love the whole game of basketball, and that's what I've always believed in.

I'm what you would term a lifer. Basketball is what I love. It doesn't matter where I'm doing it or in what position I'm doing it. I just love contributing to the game.

In the NBA you better come to play every night, where in the NBDL the talent level just isn't there and maybe you have guys taking a night off.

Sometimes you get the rap of, 'Don't always play hard,' or, 'Just doing it for the money.' But there are guys that genuinely love the game of basketball and are always playing it and are always out there. There are guys that work hard and actually understand the game and are very knowledgeable off the court as well.

There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.

Kobe was obsessed with the game of basketball.

For us, as hoopers and as basketball players, doesn't matter the scenario, the scene. True hoopers and true basketball players are going to get out and perform.

Basketball has consumed me since the age of 7 or 8. I don't know what I would do without it.

With me and basketball, it became part of me.

I don't see myself not playing basketball. I don't see myself not around basketball.

I think every player who truly loves basketball wants to be in the game at all times.

When you want to play basketball and you get paid for playing basketball, you want to do it every single day. So I don't think I'll get tired of doing it.

People don't understand how hard it is to get to the NBA and that's where I want to be.

It's just basketball. It's what I do. I've been doing this since I was 4.

If you put it in perspective, I loved basketball before I loved everything else, you know what I mean? Before I had a girlfriend or even childhood friends, I had my basketball. So it's my first love.

Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.

I think I'm one of the rare people out there who still cares about the game of basketball.

I think when I moved to the United States and saw how serious basketball was and how good I was compared to everyone else. You just came from Canada and you're top five in the country; you're young and everyone says you can be a pro. That's when I started thinking: if I work hard, the dream can come true.

I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else.

I love the game of basketball so much. I have a lot of goals for myself. I want to make sure I compete every single day.