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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • God
  • Game
  • Football

• I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

  

  Danny Pudi
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Football

• So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Taken
  • Basketball

• I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.'

  

  Ashley Benson

• When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise and that life on earth would have to evolve in order to live beneath the sea once more or perish. We came from water and now, with the help of stem cell technology and cloning, we must go back to it to survive.When the waters rise, humanity will go back to the place from whence it came.Make no mistake, this is not sci-fi, this is evolution.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Help

• Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Boat

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

  

  Elizabeth Vargas

• I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• 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