Basketball Quotes
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There's more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what.
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I went to an ACC school, Wake Forest, I'm a big college basketball fan, and it was just a natural interest for me.
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Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.
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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.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
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Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.
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My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.
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We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.
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It was a disappointing loss for us as a basketball team. We couldn't keep them off the free throw line in the fourth quarter. We just didn't have things go our way.
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The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
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When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
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Hicks is inch-for-inch, pound-for-pound the toughest player in basketball. We played really good defense against a good ball club.
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I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.
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I wake up every day doing what I love to do. I love to play basketball.
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Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
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I want to thank Texas Lutheran for the opportunity to coach the women's basketball program. I will miss the players, the coaches and the many people that make TLU a special place.
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I think guys that play basketball really understand how to go up and get a ball. Because in a rebound situation, you've got to go up and fight for a ball. Just boxing out. There are a lot of things that transfer.
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You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
