“I wish the Timberwolves all the best. I talk to KAT and some of the young guys all the time. I hope they can find a special place in commemorating Flip and celebrating him properly.”— Kevin Garnett, kstp.com
“Charles: 'I think I look good tonight.' Kevin: 'You think that, but thinking and reality are two different things, sometimes.'”— Charles Barkley, Kevin Garnett, nba.com
“I suit up every night. Banged up, hurt, whatever. 100%, 30%. It ain't no numbers, it's my heart and you can't measure that.”— Kevin Garnett, youtu.be
“You can't teach the beast. It's either in you or it isn't. You can't just go to the store and buy a six-pack of beast. It don't work like that.”— Kevin Garnett, cbssports.com
“Our league now is at a point where you have to teach more than anything. AAU has killed our league.”— Kevin Garnett, bleacherreport.com
“You'll see some great moves at tonight's NBA All-Star game but you know what, none really work in bed. Cross-over sex, not really.”— Dr. Ruth Westheimer, twitter.com
“Because I don't want chumps, I don't want pushovers, and if you're a chump and a pushover, I will run over you.”— Kobe Bryant, espn.com
“What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.”— Bill Russell, amazon.com
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why... I succeed.”— Michael Jordan, amazon.com
“I didn't want to be the one guy that — after we saw the ball go up, there were three seconds left, up four, we knew it was all over — I didn't want to be that guy that was searching for someone to hug.”— Kevin Love, rollingstone.com
“What I liked about basketball was how interconnected everything was. The game was a complex dance of moves and countermoves that made it much more alive than other sports I played. In addition, basketball demanded a high level of synergy. To succeed, you needed to rely upon everybody else on the flo…”— Phil Jackson, amazon.com