Basketball Quotes
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You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.
LeBron James
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I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
Red Auerbach
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In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.
Dick Vitale
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I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.
Kenyon Martin
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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The bottom line is, we didn't make shots. It's just disappointing that we played as well as we did defensively, and yet it's a 10-point loss. And we missed free throws. It's just not good enough if you want to beat good teams. You've got to play complete basketball, not just defend, not just rebound, it's got to be complete. We're either going to get it or we're going to continue to be a .500 team. We're either going to figure it out or remain an average program.
Brad Soderberg
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I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.
Jimmy Connors
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I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.
Curtis Granderson
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I think every player who truly loves basketball wants to be in the game at all times.
Jalen Brunson
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Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football.
Leigh Steinberg
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Everybody knows that, in general, a basketball player needs to be tall and a fashion model needs to be skinny, but how skinny is too skinny?
Coco Rocha
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Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.
Doug Flutie
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When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
Charles Barkley
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If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume for NBA.com. I'm a really huge basketball fan... I'll talk all sorts of trash.
Genesis Rodriguez
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Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats.
Allan Houston
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This is a situation for our team to have to grow, unfortunately. Hopefully we can be a better basketball team for him when he gets back.
Dan Monson
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When I was coming up through the programs with the Amateur Basketball Association, it was height: they looked for the tall players, and they looked to develop us. I was 15 when they first got me.
Anne Donovan
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I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.
Kyrie Irving
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I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.
Omar Benson Miller
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When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
Allen Iverson
