Basketball Quotes
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Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
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"And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."
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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.
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I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.
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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.
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We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
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I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I went to college, on a basketball scholarship to a small school in Iowa, so I'm like Mr. Midwest.
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Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
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I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
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Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
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Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.
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Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.
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I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learned that way, but it did leave a lasting impression.
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True basketball coaches are great teachers and you do not humiliate, you do not physically go after, you do not push or shove, you do not berate, if you are a true coach. If you humiliate or curse them, that won't do it. Coaches like that are not coaches.
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There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
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I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.
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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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I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.
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The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.
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If people are well paid for reality television and cotton candy and dunking a basketball, why can't they be well paid for changing young minds?
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
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The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
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That's not what basketball is about. Basketball is about playing as a team and finding a functioning level.
