Basketball Quotes
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I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.
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We me and brother wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.
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Up until I was about 12, I was a ballet dancer and a basketball player.
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I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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I'm not getting caught in a club at 2 o'clock in the morning. I'm going to basketball games and hockey games and going to events and dinners.
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Selecting the right college to attend is an investment into a young man or woman's future, it's not just about basketball.
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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.
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I can shoot a three pointer in basketball, and I can kick a soccer ball.
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Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.
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One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
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I used to take pride if my kids were playing basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't say anything. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
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Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
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You started rapping when you wasn't good at basketball. I started rapping because I needed Adderall.
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Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
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I really want to start playing basketball. I actually bought a new basketball.
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Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.
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I'm much more starstruck by athletes than I am by actors, and I think I saw Kobe Bryant at a basketball party, and I just kind of froze. He's monstrous.
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I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.
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I was at UCLA when John Wooden was the basketball coach. The next coach was Gene Bartow, who got fired for winning 90 percent plus of his games. He wasn't John Wooden. It's incredibly difficult to replace someone who has been seen as an icon.
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And hopefully, it'll be that way forever, because I don't want to be a part of any big controversy anymore. I was sick of talking about it. I just want to play basketball.
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My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.
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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
