Rick Barry Quotes

When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

Rick Barry

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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Star
  • Sports

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Free
  • Giving

• I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Done
  • Politics
  • Same

• Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Best
  • Always
  • Basketball

• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Game

• Basketball is basketball.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Basketball

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Power
  • Me
  • Space

• I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Control
  • Player

• Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Sweet
  • Basketball

• I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. In high school it was a matter of talent. No one told you what to do.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Mind
  • School
  • High

• Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of L.A. in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers.

  

  Jay Leno
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Basketball

• Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • Time
  • Family
  • Feeling

• I have zero hand-eye coordination - zero - so I've never been good at softball, basketball, golf, things like that, but I'm really strong and I have really good endurance so I can go forever - I'm a tough girl.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Strong

• Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Soul

• We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

  

  Elizabeth Vargas

• I've never been a heavy practitioner of the method or, at least, with any specific intent; I'm kind of an impulse-based person. Like, I'm sort of waiting for something to happen that I'm not expecting, and I kind of want to jump on that train of emotion, whatever it is, both from myself or from the other actor.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Waiting
  • Jump

• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• When you think about what the odds are to have four boys to not only be able to follow in the footsteps in a basketball career but to also be good in the secondary career as far as the broadcasting, it's pretty remarkable.

  

  Rick Barry
  • Basketball
  • Footsteps
  • Broadcasting