Best All Star Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Ron Artest has really earned the title All-Star.”

“When I got into the league, I didn't want to just be another guy. I wanted to be an All-Star.”

“I've been an All-Star twice, scored 10,000 points, done some pretty cool individual things.”

“I feel like it took me averaging 35 points a game to finally get some All-Star recognition.”

“The All-Star Game is about going out and having fun, it's more for the fans. Whatever happens, happens.”

“All-Star games don't resonate with me.”

“I feel like if I have a ring, that's far better than being an All-Star. As an individual accolade, for sure, 100%, I want to be one.”

“I'm not in this league to be an All-Star. I'm not in this league to make the Hall of Fame. I'm not in this league to make the all-defensive team.”

“I don't care about All-Star or the fame that comes with it, the recognition.”

“To hear people mentioning me for All-Star is an unbelievable feeling.”

“I've played in some big games throughout my career - postseason games, All-Star Games, a couple of World Series.”

“I already have an Rookie of the Year. I have All-Star. I've got a World Series championship. That's amazing.”

“I've had situations where I led the league in assists and didn't make the All-Star team. I've had situations where my team was the best in the conference and I didn't make the All-Star team over say a guy like Penny Hardaway, who didn't play the first half of the season.”

“I can be an All-Star, I know I can.”

“The timing of the All-Star break usually tends to be a good thing.”

“It's an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It's not something I take for granted.”

“Do I want to be an All-Star? For sure.”

“I've never made an All-Star Game, but I've always had my peers' and coaches' respect around the league.”

“It's a privilege to be an All-Star for the second straight year.”

“It was never about trying to make the All-Star Game. It's about being back at that high level to help a team win.”

“Oh, if I played in the All-Star game, I'm playing defense - hard for the first quarter. And I want to get a couple of dunks, too, like I do in a regular game.”

“Unfortunately I couldn't play as much as I wanted in Los Angeles, because I was playing behind an All-Star.”

“I'd take the Defensive Player of the Year any day over an All-Star selection. There's only one of these in the whole league every year.”

“This is basketball. It's All-Star and all that stuff. That's not what it's really about. It's about making a difference and impacting the kids and helping people in need. That's what it's about.”

“When I was a kid, watching All-Star week on TV, the Home Run Derby was a highlight for me.”

“I never cared for stuff like the All-Star Game.”

“Tim Duncan and Steve Smith made me feel like an All-Star.”

“To be in the All-Star Weekend is something that's special.”

“It definitely would be an honor to be an All-Star. But I have no say in it. It's not up to me. It's up to the fans and coaches.”

“The All-Star Game was one of my top highlights as a player. In my eye, it gave me a good idea of where I ranked among my peers. That was always my benchmark to say that I am still in the upper echelon of players.”

“In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.”

“I want to be on the All-Defensive team, be rookie of the year, make the All-Star team, all that type of stuff.”

“I just don't want to go to the All-Star game to be in the dunk contest and go home. I want to be there competing in the game with a couple of my teammates.”

“I am a reality all-star. This is what I do. I'm not an actor or an athlete.”

“Obviously, I want to be an All-Star.”

“It's a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.”

“Personally, I wanna be in an All-Star Game. Get All-NBA.”

“I partied too much. I was still 19, 20 years old. I was coming from a little small city where there's 40,000 people, so being in New Jersey, New York, being with a big All-Star like Stephon Marbury, he's calling me every night to go out with him. I didn't know how to say no.”

“I never said to myself, 'Get to the NBA, be an All-Star, make a $100 million contract.'”

“The thing I really want to do is make the All-Star team and have an All-Star season. If I do that, then I know my team is going to be winning.”

“It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.”

“I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.”

“People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.”

“You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.”

“When I was about nine years old, I was on an All-Star team made up of kids from my area, and we went to Myrtle Beach for some sort of regional championship game. I don't remember all the details, but I do know that the other team was trying not to kick the ball to me.”

“Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.”

“People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.”

“Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.”

“There are no expectations on a 40-year-old man. All I have to worry about is intensity, and things will take care of themselves. I don't have to worry about championships, all-star games, contracts. I can just walk on the court and play.”

“Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position - two deep. That will be hard to beat.”

“For me, definitely, to make the All-Star team, that's something that I'm always going to remember.”

“I know I'm not an All-Star or star player, but I want to be remembered as a great role player who won a lot of games and leave my mark in the league.”

“I expect to play at an All-Star defensive level, and everything else will come.”

“I feel an obligation to get better. I don't feel an obligation to be an All-Star.”

“When you have a guy like Chris Paul, who's the best point guard in the world, saying I should be an All-Star, and other coaches and players coming up to me and saying I should be an All-Star, it's an unbelievable compliment.”

“At the end of the day, if I become an All-Star, it's because of my teammates.”

“I can be an All-Star.”

“You can have an all-star team but not everyone plays at an all-star level.”

“This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.”

“I know you expect a lot from me, and people expect a lot from me, but I'm not a superstar, I'm not an All-Star, I'm not LeBron, I'm not those great players.”

“People ask me if I would like to make the All-Star team. I mean, seriously, who wouldn't?”

“When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.”

“It's an amazing feeling being selected as an all-star.”

“Of course you want people to notice you're back, and you're playing well just to be respected. Because I was an All-Star, a first-team All-NBA guy. But I don't need the media putting a spotlight on me.”

“I'll never say a player doesn't deserve to be on the all-star team.”

“I don't want to get in trouble here, but the All-Star Game shouldn't count for anything. It should just be for fun.”

“I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.”

“It's always special to be an All-Star.”

“They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.”

“You can never take a day off, because there's an All-Star on every team.”

“I remember being a teenager and watching 40-year-old Michael Jordan compete in his final All-Star game.”

“I played three seasons when I was in MLS before I went to Europe, and every year, I was able to be selected for the All-Star, which was an honor.”

“I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.'”

“My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.”

“I like horse racing but I'm not an All-Star in horse racing. I'm an All-Star fan in horse racing.”

“In 1949, I saw a World War II veteran named Lou Brissie, who had nearly lost a lower leg in combat, pitch in the All-Star Game in Brooklyn.”

“In an All-Star game the players are having more fun than usual and showing their personalities more than usual. And there are guys in this game - I'm not one of them - who are historically good. First-ballot Hall of Famers.”

“As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.”

“We knew James Harden was good. You don't get named to All-Star games and win Olympic gold medals when you play like Darko Milicic.”

“Being an All-Star is everything.”

“The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.”

“When it's all said and done, people forget who was an All-Star what year or who finished where in the scoring race. They remember winners and guys who enjoyed playing the game.”

“I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.”

“To be part of the All-Star group is a great honor. It means a lot.”