Basketball Hall of Fame Quotes

I loved watching Cynthia Cooper growing up when she played for the Houston Comets.

People don't realize how talented the NBA is.

Kobe can play in any league.

To be named as one of the finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's Class of 2010 on Friday was a special moment for me. As a player, it's something that you dream about. It's an honor that you have to earn based on your career and the respect from your peers around you.

I don't want to see Kobe Bryant ever leave. If he was 100 years old and still playing, I'd be happy.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.

I'm a huge fan of Clyde Frazier and Earl Monroe.

I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

If you look at the history of the NBA, guys that came out of high school are the guys that held the NBA together. You look a Kobe Bryant, you look at a LeBron, these are household names.

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.

I want to do the best I can in the NBA. After three or four years, I want people to know who Scottie Pippen is.

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

Huge Kobe fan growing up. My dog's name is Kobe.

Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

When I got traded to the Lakers in '97, Kobe Bryant was just a rookie.

My brother was a huge Charles Barkley fan - my brother went to Miami. He played power forward, and he always used to tell me stories about Barkley and college. And I watched Barkley growing up. I loved what he brought to the game. His toughness and just his attitude, being as strong he was.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

In my head, I'm a big Kobe fan.

All I used to want to do was shoot fadeaways like Kobe because he was my favorite player.

Yes, I played in '92 with the original Dream Team, and then again in '96 with what they labeled 'Dream Team III.'

I think Kevin Garnett is going to be really good at some point.