Basketball Quotes
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I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.
Sheryl Swoopes
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
Lil' Romeo
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My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
Amar'e Stoudemire
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I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.
Lisa Leslie
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I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.
Kylie Bunbury
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Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.
Gene Tunney
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We can't feel sorry for ourselves. That's the great thing about basketball, you have to go out there and play another game. We're just going to have to bounce back.
Phil Jackson
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As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.
Ben Silbermann
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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.
Franz Beckenbauer
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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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Without basketball, I wouldn't be me. I don't know where I would be at.
Tyronn Lue
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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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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.
Jeremy Lin
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The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.
Cindy Crawford
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I was really active athletically, definitely. I was a hurdler, a sprinter. I played basketball for years. I was a serious athlete.
Johnny Mathis
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I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.
Jerry Ferrara
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
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Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.
Don Yaeger
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I thought we sputtered and I thought we did not make the extra pass. We played selfish basketball today, and I thought we played not smart.
C. Vivian Stringer
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The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.
Woody Hayes
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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'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley
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We're a basketball family.
Kristaps Porzingis
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I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.
Elinor Lipman