Top 30 Summertime Quotes

My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.

Everybody‘s out and you get a lot of friction, a lot of heat in the air. It makes a beautiful disaster and that’s where the ‘Summertime Shootout’ comes from.

Americans are really in love with their summertime.

What people don’t understand is the summertime is motivation – how willing you’re willing to work for the upcoming season – and I think, as older players, once you see that drive fall off in the summer, then I think it’s time to hang it up.

I’ve always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, ‘Do something, and come back later.’

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there’d be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

I’d be sent down South in summertime to work with my grandmother in the field and working with cattle, chickens, beans and tobacco.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn’t think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

When I was entering high school, my dad had me going around to different high schools, playing open gyms. A lot of coaches thought I was coming to their schools. If I would have done it over, I would have just stayed at one particular school just to play pickup basketball in the summertime.

In the summertime, I played Little League baseball; football in the fall; basketball in the winter.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I’m actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I’ve even sold a few things.

After much inner debate, I can safely proclaim that Mungo Jerry‘s ‘In the Summertime’ may, in fact, be the best song ever recorded.

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

A Negroni demands your full, upright attention. It will not tolerate mindless swigging the way all those sweet summertime drinks do, which is just one reason no one has ever ordered one at a swim-up bar at a resort pool.

There’s something particular about the way Los Angeles feels in the summertime. It slows down and is hazy and dreamy, and you can put on certain music and go for a drive and be totally sober but feel stoned.

The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months – the best insurance against gloominess for me.

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.

In the summertime, it’s always hard to introduce new series; everyone‘s ready for that in the fall.

Summertime where guys played pickup, we got a thing in Philly called Summertime Rec. In that summertime you can’t duck no smoke. You can’t duck nobody in that basketball vibes.

Summertime, this is the time that you flex.

When I need to think of, like, a peaceful scene or something, I think of my back garden in summertime. And whenever I hear the lawnmower next door, I always think it’s really peaceful.

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it’s even summertime.

A trade is a trade, but it’s different as far as summertime versus in the season.

Did you know there’s probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Summertime in New York is always a lot of fun, and I can’t wait for my second ‘SummerSlam.’

I was a janitor when I was 16, cleaning out garbage rooms in Washington, D.C., and they were foul. It gets really hot in D.C. in the summertime, and you then take on the essence of garbage. People would stand away from me on the sidewalk as I came toward them.