Basketball Quotes
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When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years.
Red Auerbach -
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
Wilt Chamberlain
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It's the craziest thing I've ever been around. I've never been on a team, coach or player, where this has happened. I just hope we can take the positives to Rhode Island and see if we can play good basketball again.
Brad Soderberg -
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player.
Sue Wicks -
I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.
Will Ferrell -
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey -
You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.
Paul Pierce -
I was not in touch with reality. Growing up, I was being shielded without my knowing it, because even all the way up to the age of 15, I made these paper basketball men and played with them, like action figures.
Willis Earl Beal
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach -
It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.
Wilt Chamberlain -
I tell the young kids, you have eight or nine months of the year to play basketball and the rest of the year you can relax. So, you've got to be ready. It doesn't last forever.
Ray Allen -
Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.
Paul Pierce -
There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie